Thane: Four persons of a family have been
arrested here on charges of harassing their newly wed daughter-in-law for dowry following which she committed suicide, police said Friday.
Twenty-four-year-old Sameer Sudhakar Wadekar was married
to Trupti last year. After few days, her in-laws started
making exorbitant demands. The harassment increased day by day
and she was locked in a room and not given any food, according
to a complaint filed by the victim`s father.
Fed up with the constant torture, Trupti hung herself to
death with the help of a rope, police said.
Her body has been sent for postmortem and foursome--Sameer
Wadekar, his mother Sushma (40) sisters Sunita (19) and
Supriya (20) have been booked under several sections of the
IPC.
PTI
