Last Updated: 20th March 2015VELLORE: Two months after a 25 year-old woman committed suicide by jumping off the third floor of her residence in Ambur, police arrested the woman’s 30 year-old husband on charges of abetting her suicide following an inquest conducted by the Revenue Divisional Officer (RDO) of Tirupattur, D Rengarajan.
Imiran Basha (the accused) married Sumaiya Banu in 2013, after his first wife left him and was living with her on a third floor apartment in Ambur Town. Basha frequently quarrelled with Banu demanding dowry from her.
On January 10, Banu jumped off the third floor and sustained serious injuries. With the help of neighbours, Basha took her to a nearby private hospital.
The doctors told Basha that his wife had sustained fractures in both legs and referred her to a better hospital.
Basha took her to Nagari in Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh for treatement, where doctors bandaged her legs and discharged her following medical procedures.
Basha took his wife back to Ambur in an autorickshaw but Banu succumbed to her injuries on the way back to Ambur.
“Fearing the wrath of his in-laws, Basha was moving around Ambur in an autorickshaw with the dead body of his wife for more than two hours.
“He was spotted by locals when he tried to take his wife’s body to a Muttukollai for final rites and alerted Banu’s family members,” said a police official attached to Ambur Station.
On information, the woman’s father filed a complaint with Ambur police suspecting foul play in his daughter’s death.
Deputy Superintendent of Police of Ambur P Ganesan filed a case under section 174 (3) and forwarded the case to Revenue Divisional Officer for an inquest as the woman died within seven years of marriage.
The Revenue Divisional Officer conducted an inquiry with the relatives and neighbours of both Banu and her husband and submitted the inquest report to the DSP, who was the investigating officer of the case, a week ago.
“The RDO has clearly stated that the woman committed suicide unable to withstand the dowry harassment at the hands of Basha,” the DSP told Express.
Based on the report, the police altered the section 174 (3) of IPC to sections 498 A (husband or relatives of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 306 (abetment to suicide) of IPC and arrested him on Wednesday.
He was remanded in the Vellore Central Prison.
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