Three persons, including husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law of a deceased woman whose body was reportedly recovered in hanging condition from his bed room on Tuesday late evening, were arrested and forwarded to court on Wednesday afternoon by Rourkela police here allegedly for killing her for dowry.
The father of the deceased girl lodged an FIR in local police station on Wednesday, alleging dowry torture against his daughter, following which police arrested the trio.
Sources said, Ganesh Mandal, father of Pratima Mandal (32), a resident of Chakradharpur area of Jhakrhand, lodged an FIR in plant site police station on Wednesday. As per his FIR, his daughter Pratima had married to one Padma lochan Mandal son of Ratikanta Mandal, a resident of B/129, Sector 21 of steel township area. His son in-law Padma lochan works as a loco driver in Indian Railways at Bondamunda here. In his FIR, Ganesh mentioned that at the time marriage, as per the dowry demand of his
son-in-law’s family, he had given cash of `1.5 lakh, other household commodities like a washing machine, a refrigerator and gold ornaments of about fifty grams.
But after three months of marriage, her in-laws started torturing Pratima demanding another `2 lakh.
“later, I paid about Rs 1 lakh in four installments,” Ganesh mentioned in his FIR. He also claimed that during that time, he had also lodged a complaint in local Mahila police station, but the police officials had not initiated any action in his case.
Ganesh alleged that torture on his daughter was continuing at regular intervals. “On Tuesday evening, at about 7 pm, my wife received a phone call from our son in-law rebuking her in filthy languages. He told my wife to take back our daughter or else face serious consequences,” said Ganesh, adding that after about two hours later, they were told over phone that their daughter had hanged herself.