Amritsar, July 5

Eight months after a youth committed suicide, the police have arrested a woman and her brother in the case. They were identified as Sheetal Sharma and Sanjay Sharma alias Kaalu.

The deceased has been identified as Naresh Puri who had ended his life by consuming poisonous substance on September 17 last year allegedly following his harassment by in-laws of his deceased brother. Sheetal was his sister-in-law.

On the statement of his father Ravinder Puri, the police have booked four persons — Sheetal Sharma, her two brothers Shivam Arora and Shubham Arora of Guru Nanakpura and Bunty. A case under Sections 306, 34, 506 and 120-B of the IPC has been registered.

Ravinder Puri alleged that Naresh’s elder brother Avtar Puri lost his leg and an arm in a mishap at the Gurdaspur railway station. He said he got him to marry Sheetal in 2014. However, in November 2014, he ended his life after consuming poisonous substance. After his death, Sheetal returned to his parents and married again.

He said he had a shop in the Pink Plaza market and did not want to sell it. He said his lawyer asked him to bring consent from his daughter-in-law Sheetal before selling the shop. He alleged that when he asked her for signature, she started demanding her share in the property. He said he filed a case in the court against it. He said due to continuous harassment from her family, his younger son Naresh Puri consumed poisonous substance.

Amarjit Singh, Sheetal and Sanjay were arrested and later released on bail. —TNS