RAMGARH: A 25-year-old woman filed an FIR against her husband and her in-laws alleging them of murdering her two-year-old daughter on Saturday for failing to pay
dowry
,
Ramgarh
police said on Sunday.
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The complaint,
Punam Kumari
, in her statement to Gola police said her daughter was killed on Saturday morning. She said her mother-in-law was found stuffing cloth into the mouth of the child, causing suffocation and her death. “I was in the toilet then. As I came out, I saw my mother-in-law committing the crime,” she said in her statement. The child was rushed to the local hospital but was declared brought dead.
According to police, Punam got married to 28-year-old
Neeraj Kumar of Sarlakhurd village last year owing to pressure of villagers as the two were in a relationship for three years and she got pregnant. The deceased child was from her earlier marriage.
Neeraj’s family also demanded dowry from her father even after payment of Rs 1 lakh and a motorcycle initially, she told the police.
The officer-in-charge of Gola police station, Siddhant, said, “We have registered an FIR against Neeraj Kumar, his father Bhuneshwar Mahto and others under relevant sections of the IPC. After a probe, arrests will be made soon.”
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