A woman committed suicide by allegedly consuming poisonous substance after being harassed by her husband and in-laws for dowry, police said on Tuesday.
"A preliminary probe confirmed that it is a dowry death case. Babita Pathak committed suicide after being harassed by her husband, Arvind Pathak and his family members. We have made a SDM complaint into the matter and the autopsy of deceased was also done," DCP Vijay Kumar told IANS.
"We have registered a case on the basis of autopsy report. Arvind Pathak is being questioned," he added.
Babita, a native of Uttar Pradesh, married Pathak on February 6, 2018.
Her family members alleged that she was being harassed for dowry by him and his parents after a month after marriage.
"My daughter was often assaulted badly by Arvind Pathak whenever they asked her for taking Rs 2 lakh as dowry from me. At the same time, I tried to tackle the issue with Pathak and his family but they later a month after started to harass my daughter again. Now they killed her by giving her poison in food," her father Harishankar Pathak said.
--IANS
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