Prakash Chandra Rai, a clerk in the District Settlement Office, has been arrested by Hazaribagh police on Wednesday for killing his wife Kusum Devi. On a complain of Chandra Shekhar Rai, father of the deceased, a dowry-cum-murder case has been registered.
The family members of Rai said that Prakash and his family members used to torture Kusum to fulfill their demands. Both were married in 2007 and at that time Kusum’s family had given cash and items as dowry but still they were not satisfied with it.
Chandra Shekhar Rai said that he tried his best to satisfy Prakash and his family by fulfilling their demands after marriage too but now he was not in that position. Between these 7 years Prakash became father of two kids also.
Prakash Rai is a resident of Amarbigha village of Bodhgaya and lived in a rented house. It is said that on Tuesday once again he became angry on Kusum as his demands were not fulfilled and in anger he choked her throat. When she died, he planned to flee away from here and called an ambulance.
late Tuesday evening when he was carrying the body of Kusum to Gaya in an ambulance, her family members caught him near Chouparan. They said that some well-wisher from Hazaribagh informed them about the incident otherwise he had planned to cremate the body .
In the morning the postmortem of the body was done at Sadar Hospital. An FIR was lodged and Prakash Rai was taken into custody. In the noon he was produced in the court and then sent to jail. Prakash denied all charges and said that it was a natural death.