A man and his son were arrested and forwarded to court by Tikayatpalli police in Sundargarh district on Friday allegedly for abetment of suicide of his daughter-in-law who was newly married.
The deceased Chandeswari Behera(30), a resident of Talamunda village of Jharsuguda district, had married one Bibhuti Behera, a resident of Sarsara village under Tikayatpalli police station under Bonei sub division, five months ago. As per the FIR lodged in Tikayatpalli police station by family member of Chandeswari, Chandeswari’s father-in-law Laxman Behera and husband Bibhuti Behera, used to torture Chandeswari regularly for dowry.
Chandeswari’s sister-in-law who is married also used to torture her. When the torture became unbearable, Chandeswari reportedly had told his parents to take her to their house. On March 3 at around 10 pm, the family members of Chandeswari came to know from on their relative that Chandeswari is critical and they went to the house of in-laws of Chandeswari and found the door of the house was locked from outside and saw through the window that Chandeswari was hanging from roof.
Laxman and Bibhuti had absconded. So they suspected that both Laxman and Bibhuti killed Chandeswari and later hanged her and after locking the door from outside, fled.
After getting information on Thursday morning, a police team alongwith scientific team, reached the spot and retrieved the body. Later, the police started searching both father and son.On Friday, police arrested both Laxman and Bibhuti and forwarded them to court for abetment to suicide of Chandeswari.
Significantly, accused Laxman and Bibhuti had been arrested and sent to jail in a murder case, five years ago and later had come out of jail on bail.