India, May 22 -- Minutes before her death, after allegedly falling from the fourth floor of a building in west Delhi, a 25-year-old woman made a series of frantic calls to her family, crying for help and asking them to take care of her six-month-old son, even as her brother laments not bringing her home earlier.

"Around 9.55 pm, she called her sister and asked her to take her from there or else 'they' will kill her. She said 'they' were beating and abusing her. She kept saying, 'If something happens to me, take care of my child'," her brother said.

About an hour later, around 10.02 am, another call came, this time from her brother-in-law.

"He only said my sister had fallen from the terrace," the family alleged, recalling how they hit h...