Suicide victim’s kin block Amritsar-Attari highway

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 12

Alleging police inaction, the family members of a deaf and dumb girl, who committed suicide, held a demonstration against the Gharinda police and blocked the Amritsar-Attari Road near Chak Mukand village on Thursday.

They were demanding the registration of a murder case against victim Simranjit Kaur’s in-laws. They alleged that Simranjit was physically and mental harassed by her in-laws for dowry. She was even thrashed a few days after giving birth to a child, due to which her health condition deteriorated and she died.

Nevertheless, the police had already registered a suicide case and her husband Sarvan Singh was arrested.

Simranjit had ended her life by hanging with the ceiling fan of the house in Hoshiarnagar village falling under Gharinda police station here on Friday (August 6). The police had booked her husband Sarvan Singh, his father Virsa Singh, mother Balwinder Kaur, brother Gursewak Singh and his wife Rajwinder Kaur in the case for abetting suicide.

Kulbir Singh, father of the deceased, alleged that the accused used to harass his daughter for bringing insufficient dowry. He said Simranjit was married to Sarvan around three years ago and had given dowry as per his capacity. He said the accused started harassing and physically assaulting his daughter. A day before the incident, she called him and said she could not bear more and was going to end her life. He alleged that the accused were demanding Rs1 lakh to buy a buffalo.

Gurpartap Singh Sahota, DSP Attari, said the police took the supplementary statements of the victim’s family and their claims were being verified. He said raids were on to nab the remaining accused.