Dr. Shahana, a postgraduate surgery student at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, recently took her own life because of her family's inability to fulfill purportedly excessive dowry requests made by Ruvais .
On October 13, 2021 the Additional Sessions Court, Kollam, had found Suraj guilty of murder in this unique case of murder by throwing a starving cobra on to his sleeping wife to induce death by snakebite.