After Hardeepkumar Kumri (26), a welder and Mumbra resident confessed to killing his wife Preeti as he did not like her on January 16, the police are still looking into possibilities as to what aggravated Kumri into murdering his wife. Preeti's parents are pointing out a dowry angle to the murder.

Preeti (20) was married to Kumri two and a half years ago. Within four months of the marriage, the couple's relationship was strained and Preeti went back to live with her father. "They told us that she doesn't know how to cook and started demanding Rs 1 lakh and a room at Bhayanderu00a0for Kumri's business. On October 31 they took her away from our house back to Kumri's Antop Hill residence," said Preeti's father Ramesh Ramdani Verma, a furniture seller who stays at Bhayander.