Woman commits suicide over dowry, husband held

Chandigarh | Saturday | 9th March, 2019

Summary:

CHANDIGARH: Husband arrested for allegedly forcing his wife to commit suicide on the complaint of his brother-in-law by Manimajra police on Thursday. Victim's brother alleged that the accused harassed his sister for dowry , driving her to commit suicide. On March 3, after a fight with her husband, she allegedly consumed some poisonous substance, her brother alleged. Since then Seema, alleged the brother, had been harassed for more dowry. After the postmortem, the police recorded the statement of Anil and registered a case under sections 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 (abetment to suicide) of IPC against Ajay duggal and arrested him..