Woman arrested for abetting husband’s suicide

Surat: After 38-year-old Paras Jain ended life at his grocery shop opposite Navyug College in Rander on August 5 by hanging self to the ceiling using a rope, his wife was arrested on Friday for allegedly driving her husband to take the extreme step.
Police arrested Sarita on charges of abetment of suicide under sections of Indian Penal Code. The complaint was lodged by Rajesh Jain, elder brother of the deceased.
“The accused has been arrested after detailed investigation. She is named in the suicide note and there are strong evidences against her,” said a police officer in Rander police station.
Rajesh told the police that the accused often harassed her husband for money and other petty issues. He also alleged that she kept demanding her husband not to give his parents money and also wanted to stay separately. From their fights over her extravagant ways to resisting visits by relatives to his house, the accused always created trouble, he alleged.
Jain had even earlier attempted to take his life by consuming poisonous substance owing to the harassments in December 2019. He survived the bid only due to timely medical help, said the complainant.
Jain’s body was found only after some known persons checked inside the shop as the shutters were down and locked from inside.
Cops said that even his wife had come to the shop in the afternoon but returned finding the shutter down. Jain left a suicide note behind naming Sarita and her harassment as the reason for his suicide.
Jain was married earlier to another woman in 2009 and has a daughter from his previous marriage. They got divorced in 2016 after which he married Sarita, a native of Madhya Pradesh, in May 2019.