KOLKATA: The body of a 35-year-old homemaker, who went missing after dropping her five-year-old son to school at Lake Gardens last Wednesday, was found floating in Hooghly river near Baje Kadamtala Ghat on Saturday evening.Samarpita Bardhan Dutta, who allegedly spoke to her husband for the last time on Wednesday morning.“She had called me moments after dropping our son. She said she would be late as she was to visit one of the guardian’s home in Patuli. I told her not to go there that day and said I would take her there next Saturday. She agreed to the proposal and disconnected the call and that was the last time I spoke to her. She didn’t return home and her phone was switched off since then,” said Sayan Bardhan, a software engineer with multinational company.Sayan had lodged a complaint with Lake police station on Wednesday night after he found no trace of Samarpita through the day. He said he had made several rounds of the police station and all relatives and friends’ houses over the past three days before he got a call from North Port police station asking him to identify a body they had found floating in the river.“The body had swollen up but I could still identify her by the clothes she was wearing. I am in shock and have no clue how she ended up in the river so far from the school as well as our home,” said Bardhan. A resident of Srinagar Colony in New Garia, the couple was married for about 10 years.The woman’s parents however lodged a complaint against her husband at Narendrapur police station on Sunday alleging he used to torture her mentally and physically that may have forced her to commit suicide.“My son-in-law regularly used to torture my daughter. Even on February 10, he had beaten her up and there are scratch marks on Sayan’s body that suggest a scuffle had taken place between them. But my daughter wanted to stay in the marriage and thus had kept silent. My daughter had also told me that the day before she went missing, my son-in-law had created a scene at home as she had bought a packet of biryani for their son. I want the police to probe the incident thoroughly and take necessary action against my son-in-law,” said Swapan Dutta, Samarpita’s father who stays in Siliguri and came to Kolkata after learning about her daughter’s death.The husband, however, denied all the allegations.“It’s true we had some quarrels but it is common in every household. Cops have already questioned our tenants and they have also said that there was nothing unusual in our family. Her father may have lodged the complaint out of grief and anger. But I have lost my wife too and I loved her a lot. Even I want the cops to thoroughly probe the case and find out how she died,” said Bardhan.Police have sent the body for post-mortem examination to find out the exact time and reason of death. A senior officer of Narendrapur police station also acknowledged to have received the parents’ complaint but said that the sections will be added into the complaint once they get a preliminary post-mortem report.

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