Sapna alias Archana of the deceased. (File)
Photo: Amar Ujala.
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A heart-wrenching incident has come to light in Siddharthnagar district. Here on Tuesday night in Tola Peer Nagar of Kathela Janubi of Kathela Samay Mata police station area, a newly married woman committed suicide by hanging herself on the 19th day of her marriage.
The father of the deceased alleges that only after the daughter reached her in-laws house after farewell, they started beating her for dowry. Fed up with the beating, he committed suicide. On the father’s Tahrir, the police have started investigating the case by registering a case against the accused husband and father-in-law in other sections including dowry death. Along with this, the dead body has been sent for postmortem.
Jagdish, a resident of Sukrauli village of Shivnagar Didai police station area, married his daughter Sapna alias Archana (21) with Vinay Bhatt, a resident of Tola Peer Nagar of Kathela Januvi under Kathela Samay Mata police station area. The marriage took place on 11 May itself.
On Tuesday night, a dead body was found hanging from the noose of a saree in the room of Sapna alias Archana. After getting information from the people around, father Jagdish reached the village. In the complaint letter given to the police, Jagdish alleged that the daughter got married on May 11. From the second day of reaching her in-laws house, she started being harassed.