A newly married woman who was preparing for competitive examinations with her husband, committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance in Colonelganj area here. The police said further action will be taken after the getting the postmortem report.
Ravi Shankar Pandey of Naya Katra Colonelganj married his daughter Akanksha Pandey alias Mona (28) on February 7 this year to Shubham Tripathi, a resident of Katju Colony. Akanksha and Shubham used to prepare for competitive exams. The family members said both had filled the form of BDO the examination of which was on June 27-28 and the centre was in Kanpur. Both went to give the exam together and everything was fine at home. Her husband claimed that she was disturbed as she did not do well in the BDO exam.
She was doing LLB and presently the LLB exam is going on. On Thursday suddenly Akanksha consumed poisonous substance. When her condition deteriorated, her family members took her to the nearest hospital from where she was referred to the Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital. Akanksha died shortly after treatment there. Akanksha’s brother Akhil Kumar Pandey alleged said despite giving more dowry than his status in marriage, Akanksha’s in-laws were demanding dowry. It was alleged that she was being mentally tortured due to which she was very disturbed. Akhil has lodged an FIR against five people, including her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law. Inspector Colonelganj Rammohan Rai said the married woman committed suicide by consuming poisonous substance. An FIR has been registered against five people on her brother’s complaint. No suicide note has been found.
case of ‘love jihad’ comes to light: A case of ‘love jihad’ has come to light here. A Muslim youth married a Hindu girl posing as a Hindu. The girl came to know about it when she got the marriage certificate in which instead of Thakur Anuj Pratap Singh, the name of Mohammad Alam was written. The matter has now reached the court and the police station. The police have recorded the statement of the victim girl. The police will now get the victim’s medical test done so that the truth can be known. The members of Hindu Jagran Manch have also come out in support of the victim. On Thursday the delegation associated with the Hindu organisation also met the Police Commissioner. In the memorandum it was said that the accused is allegedly continuously threatening the victim and mentally harassing her. Instead of arresting him, the police are pressurising the victim herself. A demand has been made to provide security to her and to arrest the accused soon. The victim Shivani Singh (name changed) said that she had befriended Thakur Anuj Pratap Singh on an online app. Slowly, he took her into confidence and their closeness started increasing and a court marriage took place. When she saw the marriage certificate, she was shocked. In that his name was written as Mohd. Alam. She somehow saved her life and reached the Cantt police station and lodged an FIR against Alam. The victim alleged that after registering the FIR, Alam and his brother also fired at her.
The victim said his family was also involved in this incident. Alam also had three children. Hiding this information, he even got married in the court.
The victim alleged that three people, including Alam entered her house and raped her. She was also beaten up. A complaint was made to the police but no action was taken, she alleged.