Man nabbed for setting wife ablaze

The Sidhwan Bet police on Saturday registered a case against a man and his parents on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The suspect, along with his parents, had set his wife on fire by pouring some inflammable substance on her.

The victim identified as Sukhjit Kaur suffered critical burn injuries and was undergoing treatment at the DMCH. The woman was unfit to give any statement to the police.

The suspects were identified as victim’s husband Gurpreet Singh, her father-in-law Amarjit Singh and mother-in-law Manjit Kaur, residents of Swaddi Kalan. Gurpreet was arrested by the police.

The complainant, Sumanpreet Kaur, a resident of Dharamkot, Moga, told the police that her younger sister got married to Gurpreet Singh about nine years ago. After marriage, her sister gave birth to a girl child. As a daughter was born to her sister, her husband and in-laws were unhappy. They used to harass her as they wanted a boy in the family.

“On many occasions, my parents had visited her in-laws to urge them to not torture my sister but they did not budge,” she said.

“On January 16, I got a call from a nurse of a hospital in Dakha, who informed me that my sister was set on fire by her husband and in-laws. I rushed to the house of my sister’s in-laws but she was already shifted to a hospital due to her critical condition. The suspects tried to kill her by putting some inflammable substance on her,” the complainant said.

Meanwhile, investigating officer ASI Daljit Singh said the suspects had poured diesel on the victim and later shifted her to a hospital. Doctors declared the victim unfit for giving any statement due to her serious condition. So far, the woman’s husband was arrested and raids were being conducted to nab the other suspects.