India, July 6 -- Shocking allegations have surfaced in the mysterious death of a newlywed 28-year-old woman in Delhi's Lodhi Colony, with her family alleging repeated harassment and demands of dowry after what they said was a "love marriage".

Police on Sunday said that the woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances outside a government staff quarters -- the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) residential flats -- at Palika Kunj on Saturday evening. She was found in a critical state outside the government staff quarters, following which she was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), where doctors pronounced her dead, HT reported earlier.

While the police have so far been unable to establish how the decease...