Twenty-Eight weeks pregnant, seriously bruised and nursing a severe brain injury, 23-year-old Samlin Jenita was flown to Chennai from the US on Sunday night in a special air ambulance. Waiting for her at the airport was her family, who got the first inkling of what Jenita was going through when a complete stranger of Pakistani origin called them up from a hospital in Illinois saying she was admitted there and that they better hurry and take her back.

The family says the Pakistani, Sardar M Inamullah, a pathologist at the Lake Forest Hospital in Illinois, was the first to take note that something was amiss when Jenita was picked up on July 31 from a highway in Yadkin County 77 by a police patrol and brought to the hospital in a state of coma, with multiple bone fractures. A family friend of Jenita’s husband Christy Danius informed her family in Tiruchy the next day.

While the husband claims Jenita suffered the injuries in a car accident, her family says she was being harassed by Danius—a software professional deputed to the US —- and his family for dowry ever since they got married little more than a year ago. And that, on July 31, Jenita was pushed out of a running car by them.

Two weeks ago, when she was finally able to speak, Jenita alleged the same at the hospital, says her father A Sebastian, who went to the US to get her back. It had been three months since the “accident”.

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