Beaten for dowry, wife of IPS turns to police

MEERUT: A 32-year-old woman, with bloodshot eyes and swollen face, approached a police station in Meerut to file a case against her husband, an IPS officer posted in Delhi, alleging she was regularly beaten for the last several years on dowry and other pretext.
Police registered an FIR against the accused IPS officer Amit Nigam, who is currently posted as assistant commandant in sixth Nagaland Armed Police Battalion in Delhi. Nigam was also booked for attempt to murder and under the dowry prevention law. The case was filed at Meerut’s Nauchandi police station on Friday.
The latest round of thrashing, according to victim Namrata Singh, took place at their Gurgaon residence, during which she was “physically tortured for hours at a stretch”. “After that, I left that home and returned to my parents in Meerut and decided file a case,” the victim said.
The office of the UP DGP has asked the Meerut police to probe the case and file a report. Singh and Nigam, both residents of Meerut, got married in November 2015.
“Eight to 10 days after the marriage, my in-laws started demanding Rs 1crore as dowry. They started treating me like an animal,” the complainant said, adding, “When my husband was transferred to Dimapur in Nagaland I accompanied him. But, he also started beating me over dowry.”
In her complaint, the victim alleged all hell broke loose when she confronted Nigam over his “extramarital affairs” recently.
“When I returned home from work on April 30, my husband brutally thrashed me with his belt till the point I fainted,” Singh said.
After that, she returned home in Meerut and approached police.
“The FIR was filed soon after the victim approached us. There are grave charges against the accused who is a serving IPS officer. Our investigation has begun and law will take its own course irrespective of who the offender is,” Meerut SSP Nitin Tiwari said.