TNN | Aug 2, 2011, 05.18AM IST
CHANDIGARH: A 33-year-old woman committed suicide at her Sector 38-West house on Sunday night after harassment by her drunkard husband Gurmeet Singh for most of her married life.
The husband of Harpreet Kaur, alias Preet, and father-in-law Bhupinder Singh were arrested for abetment to suicide following the complaint of her father Gurcharan Singh. Just before she took the extreme step, Kaur was abused and thrashed by her husband in the presence of their three children, police sources said. Gurmeet is a taxi driver and his father a retired Punjab governmentofficial.
Debunking the suicide theory, the victim's parents alleged that she was murdered and then hanged from a ceiling fan, but police said constant harassment had forced the woman to take the extreme step. Kaur, a native of Bassi Pathana in Fathegarh Sahib, had got married in November 1996.
Harbans Kaur, the victim's mother said, "Preet began facing harassment three years after her marriage and had filed a complaint against Gurmeet at Bassi Pathana police station in 2001, but a compromise was reached. He continued to abuse and assault my daughter nearly every day."
DSP (south) B S Negi said preliminary investigation revealed that after being beaten up, Kaur remained in the front room of her house and them hanged herself. Her children Jatinder Kaur, 14, Jashanjot Singh, 11, and Prabhjot Kaur, 10, were in the next room along with their father, he added.
The body has been kept in the mortuary of Sector-16 Government Multi-speciality Hospital (GMH) and would be handed over to her family after postmortem examination on Tuesday.
A case under sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC was registered at Sector-39 police station.
The husband of Harpreet Kaur, alias Preet, and father-in-law Bhupinder Singh were arrested for abetment to suicide following the complaint of her father Gurcharan Singh. Just before she took the extreme step, Kaur was abused and thrashed by her husband in the presence of their three children, police sources said. Gurmeet is a taxi driver and his father a retired Punjab governmentofficial.
Debunking the suicide theory, the victim's parents alleged that she was murdered and then hanged from a ceiling fan, but police said constant harassment had forced the woman to take the extreme step. Kaur, a native of Bassi Pathana in Fathegarh Sahib, had got married in November 1996.
Harbans Kaur, the victim's mother said, "Preet began facing harassment three years after her marriage and had filed a complaint against Gurmeet at Bassi Pathana police station in 2001, but a compromise was reached. He continued to abuse and assault my daughter nearly every day."
DSP (south) B S Negi said preliminary investigation revealed that after being beaten up, Kaur remained in the front room of her house and them hanged herself. Her children Jatinder Kaur, 14, Jashanjot Singh, 11, and Prabhjot Kaur, 10, were in the next room along with their father, he added.
The body has been kept in the mortuary of Sector-16 Government Multi-speciality Hospital (GMH) and would be handed over to her family after postmortem examination on Tuesday.
A case under sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC was registered at Sector-39 police station.
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