In a shocking case of suicide a 22-year-old woman Juli Pathak hanged herself after she was allegedly assaulted by her husband at her house on road No 13 under Adityapur police station area on late Sunday night.
The police arrested the husband Ranjit Pathak (30) and father-in-law Govind Pathak (58) after the victim woman's grandmother Indu Devi gave a statement to the police at the MGM Medical College and Hospital emergency.
According to information, Juli was married to Ranjit in December 2013, when the parents of the victim had given him sufficient dowry, but the accused would demand more dowry.
A mother of one-year-old child, Juli was found hanging from the ceiling fan at her house at about on Sunday when the husband who works in an industrial unit at Adityapur was at home. The accused had taken the woman to the medical college hospital by 10 pm, when the doctors on the emergency duty declared her to be brought dead.
This morning the police turned up at the medical college hospital and sent the body to the MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem after taking statement from the deceased's grand-mother Indu Devi who claimed that Ranjit and his father would demand dowry in cash and would torture her grand-daughter for not meeting the demand.
Peeved over the incident, the family members of the victim and sympathisers beat Ranjit as he appeared in the medical college hospital for claiming the body. The agitated relatives had subsequently handed Ranjit to the police who arrested him. Shortly Ranjit's father Govind Pathak who also turned up at the hospital was also arrested.
Officer-in-charge, Adityapur police station Arvind Kumar confirmed that a young woman to have committed suicide in Adityapur, but said that the arresting was made by Sakchi police.
"The arresting has been made by Sakchi police team.We will get the case investigated once the case is transferred to Adityapur police station from Sakchi police under which jurisdiction, the MGM Medical College and Hospital falls," said Kumar.
Sub-inspector of police, Sakchi police station, Alvina Kerketta confirmed to have arrested two persons for forcing her to commit suicide for after she felt compelled for not being to meet the dowry demand.
"We are investigating the incident. As per our information there are marks of assault on the deceased's body. In the autopsy report things will get cleared," Kerketta said.