The Jeypore Town police recovered a half-burnt dead body of a house wife, arrested the husband and in-laws of the deceased and forwarded them to a local court.
Sources said that one P Venkat laxmi had a love affair with B Jayaram which later had ended up with the marriage between the two.laxmi was doing banana business and was staying with her husband near Vikramdev College. After some days of marriage, her husband Jayaram along with the in-laws demanded dowry from her. However, she could arrange only Rs 1 lakh from her parents. No satisfied with the sum of money, Jayaram and his family members asked laxmi for Rs 4 lakh.
After much difficulty, laxmi’s parents managed to arrange Rs 2 lakh. When they could not get the desired amount, laxmi’s in-laws started torturing the deceased frequently. When things reached the end of her tether, laxmi had filed an FIR against her husband and in-laws in the Mahila Police station here. She had, meanwhile, left her in-laws’ house and was staying with her parents.
The Mahila Police, registering a case, had arrested Jayaram on Thursday and forwarded him to court. On the same day, laxmi was found missing after she had gone out to a temple. Her family members lodged an FIR with the Town police regarding her missing. Police after starting a probe recovered the half-burnt body of laxmi near the Government Boys High School road along with one empty liquor bottle and a petrol jar.
later, the police registered a case under Section 302,304(b) and 120(b) of IPC and arrested Jayaram’s mother- in- law B Rabanama, sister-in- law Sabita and brother-in-law Gopikisan and forwarded them to court. “Further investigation is on,” informed IIC SM Pradhan.