In one of the recent dowry harassment case registered in Bengaluru, 26-year-old Banashankari resident Spandana (name changed) has claimed that her husband harasses her by calling her a ‘skeleton’. Allegedly, he keeps telling her she is too thin and he doesn’t like her because she is not good looking. After two years of tumultuous marriage, the woman is back at her parent’s house.In her complaint with Basavangudi Women’s police station on July 31, she alleged that her mother-in-law too harasses her mentally. Spandana also alleged that she was thrown out of her marital home in the middle of the night recently.She told police that she married Suhas (name changed), a private firm employee, in March, 2016, and her parents spent lakhs of rupees during the wedding. They gave him a fat dowry with gold jewellery, silver articles and cash. Before the wedding, she alleged, Suhas had forced her parents to register Spandana’s grandfather’s property over to him with a gift deed. He and his mother started to harass Spandana soon after the marriage.The harassment started over silvers drinking glasses and plates that were promised during the marriage. In family get-togethers, the mother and son would insult Spandana and her family. They’d complain that they had not been given enough silver articles, which is a part of tradition. They soon mounted pressure and forced Spandana to get her grandmother’s property registered in her husband’s name.Suhas, who owns a site in Bengaluru, wanted to build a house. He insisted that Spandana asks her father to sell his site in Mysuru and give him the money as a birthday gift. He also asked Spandana to give him some more expensive jewellery.Unable to bear the harassment, she filed a complaint.“Suhas was called in for counselling. He claimed that the allegations made by Spandana were not true. He says she is angry with him over the fact that he has not revealed his total annual earning to her. We are going to counsel the couple again. Suhas has shown interest in taking his wife back to their marital home. If they don’t reach a compromise, further action will be taken according to the law,” said an officer from Basavangudi Women’s police station.