The Rourkela Mahila Police arrested and court forwarded four of a family from Bhubaneswar on Tuesday on charge of torturing their daughter-in-law for dowry. According to complaint lodged by victim Sarita Ghadei (25) of Basanti colony here, she had married to one Uttam Ghadei(25), a resident of Palaspali under Bhubaneswar’s Airfield police station on May 26, 2013.
But she returned to her parents’ house recently after being continuously tortured by her husband, parents-in-law and daughter-in-law, she alleged. A police team led by Rourkela Mahila PS IIC Prativa Majhi went to Sarita’s in-laws house in the State capital and arrested Uttam, her father-in-law Sudhir Ghadei(52), Mother-in-law Arati (42) and daughter-in-law Krishna Ghadei (20) on Monday. “We arrested all the four accused from Bhubaneswar on Monday and have forwarded them to court here on Tuesday afternoon,” said IIC Majhi.