Woman kills self; husband, mother-in-law booked by cops

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 8

A 21-year-old married woman, identified as Sukhdeep Kaur, committed suicide by consuming some poisonous substance at Jallupur Khera village falling under Khalchian police station here on Thursday. A medical board was constituted which conducted a postmortem on the body at the Baba Bakala Civil Hospital here on Friday. After an autopsy, the body was handed over to the family.

Sub-Inspector Paramjit Singh, investigating officer of the case, said the police had booked the victim’s husband Nishan Singh and mother-in-law Kanwaljit Kaur in this connection. He said a case under Section 306 of the IPC had been registered against them.

Mukhtar Singh, father of the victim, told the police that his daughter, Sukhdeep Kaur, was married to Nishan Singh around a year ago. He said she gave birth to a girl two months ago. He said Sukhdeep had told the family that both the accused used to harass her for giving birth to a girl. He said at around 12.30pm on Thursday, Sukhdeep called him and said Nishan and Kanwaljit Kaur had beaten her up.

An hour later Kanwaljit Kaur called and said she had consumed some poisonous substance and she was taken to a private hospital. He said in the evening she died in the hospital. He demanded that the accused should be arrested and put behind bars. The investigating officer said further investigation was under progress and the accused would be arrested soon.