Police on Thursday detained a 48-year-old man after his wife committed suicide by hanging at her house on Cross Road No 6 in Daiguttu under Mango thana area late on Wednesday night.
The police acted after the deceased's father Dilip Bhushan lodged an FIR with the Mango thana that his son-in-law Sanjay Kumar Singh would torture his daughter leading her to commit suicide.
The deceased, Meena Singh (42) was mother of two sons and was a housewife. The elder son Sonu is an apprentice in Tata Steel where as the younger son Saurabh studies engineering in Bhubaneswar.
According to relatives, in the afternoon there was brawl between the deceased Meena and her husband Sanjay who is a Tata Steel employee. In the night, Sonu returned home and asked about his grand-mother about his mother.
As he found his mother's room shut, he knocked at the door. Both father and son had broken open the door to find Meena hanging from the ceiling fan.As soon as they discovered her hanging, they two rushed her to Tata Main Hospital, where the doctors on emergency duty declared her as brought dead.The members of Bhushan's family had become so agitated that they had manhandled Sanjay, leading the Tata Main Hospital administration to call in police from Bistupur police station.
The situation returned to normalcy after the officer-in-charge, Bistupur told the aggrieved people to contact the Mango police station for lodging any complaint as the suicide was committed at Mango only.
Officer-in-charge, Mango, Fulan Nath confirmed to have detained Sanjay Kumar Singh for allegedly inflicting mental and physical torture to his wife Meena Singh."We are investigating the incident. We have today detained the accused after sending the body of the deceased to MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem. Once we get the autopsy report, we will arrest the accused formally," said Nath.