Former ASI, kin booked after wife commits suicide

AMBALA: The 50-year-old wife of a retired assistant sub-inspector (ASI) allegedly committed suicide here on Friday, leaving behind an eight-page long suicide note.Beena Walia, 50, the wife of Kuldeep Walia, allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan in the drawing room of her house. In her suicide note, she blamed her husband, sister-in-law Babita, brother-in-law Pammi and husband’s friend Subhash, of destroying her life.The police have booked the woman’s husband, sister-in-law, brother-in-law and his friend for abetment to suicide. The case was registered under sections 34 and 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).The victim stayed at New Pratap Nagar situated at the rear of Royal Palace in Ambala. Her husband was living separately at Jagadhri in Yamunanagar district. Sources said he had taken voluntary retirement a few months ago from the Haryana police.Her children tried calling her but after no response, they asked neighbours to have a look. The neighbours found Beena hanging and immediately called up the women police helpline. Police said the post-mortem was conducted on Saturday morning after which the body was handed over to relatives.“In the past twenty-seven years of marriage, I have not even witnessed a single day of my life that I could term as happy. My life had been made worse, year by year, by my husband Kuldeep Walia, sister-in-law Babita, brother-in-law Pammi, and my husband’s friend Subhash,” she wrote in the suicide note. The original language used was Hindi. She further wrote, “Subhash makes them indulge in drinking alcohol due to which there had been frequent fights in the house. Babita was into black magic and my husband used to keep ‘ashes’ under my bed.” She wrote in the letter that his husband had kept all her jewellery with Subhash. She had also levelled allegations on one another man, Bunty, who runs a shop near her house.The victim had appealed to the police to not interrogate her children in the case.She had demanded severe punishment for the accused and has stated that money, required for the case, has been kept on the top of the almirah in her room.