Dowry claimed yet another life when a woman was allegedly poisoned to death by her husband and parents in-laws in Barwadih mohalla of Giridih town on Monday.
The deceased woman’s father, in an FIR lodged with Dewari police station on Tuesday, said that ever since he married his daughter, Puja Devi(24) to Ajay Singh, in 2014, his daughter never led a peaceful and happy married life as she was perennially harassed and tormented for dowry by her husband and his parents.
Recently, the husband asked his daughter, Puja, to put pressure on him for a motorbike. But, after they obliged them by buying the motorcycle, their demands remained unfulfilled, and her husband asked Puja to force her parents to cough up money, police said. On the fateful day, Puja’s husband and his parents prevented her from going to her father’s house to attend a function, unless they were given an additional dowry. Late in the night, she was allegedly poisoned to death.
Dewari O/C Uttam Upadhaya told The Pioneer on Tuesday evening that Ajay Singh, his father, and mother have been absconding since Tuesday for allegedly poisoning Puja to death.