The Bondamunda police on Tuesday detained four persons including the husband of a woman for allegedly setting her on fire for bearing a girl child for delivery.
The woman succumbed to the burn injuries on Monday night. Later, the cops a conducted postmortem and handed over the body to her family members.
According to a complaint lodged by parents of the deceased Radha Kumari (35) with the Bondamunda police, she had undergone an abortion in 2014 at the instance of her husband Binod Singh (40) to do so following determination of the female sex of the foetus.
Over five years later, the woman gave birth to a baby girl, for which her husband and in-laws were torturing her physically and mentally, her relatives alleged.
They further alleged that Radha Kumari was set ablaze by the accused on February 1 when she was six-month pregnant with a female foetus. She lost her unborn baby on February 3 while undergoing treatment at the Rourkela Government Hospital. And she succumbed to her burn injuries on Monday night.
Later, police registered a case and started investigation into the incident. Based on the on FIR, police have detained deceased Radha Kumari’s husband, his elder brother, father- law and sister- in- law.
“After registering case, we have detained four persons including
husband of deceased woman and we are interrogating them.” said Bandamunda PS IIC s Dharua.