MARRIED WOMAN STRANGULATED TO DEATH FOR A GOLD CHAIN AND MOTORCYCLE

Ara, 8 May 2023, (RNI): One married woman was strangulated to death at Dharahara village under Bihia police station in Bhojpur district in the late evening merely for a gold chain and a motorcycle. Later the police recovered the body and brought it to the Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem. The deceased was identified as Sushma Kumari 26 wife of Munna Yadav. A named FIR was lodged with the police under Bihia police station against the husband Munna Yadav, father-in-law Sri Bhagwan Yadav, mother-in-law Raj Kumari Devi and the sister-in-law Rekha Devi of the deceased on the statement of Bhim Kumar brother of the deceased. Police arrested the father-in-law and the mother-in-law in this regard so far. 

SHO Bihia police station Uday Bhanu Sigh said that Sushma Kumari daughter of Hari Narayan Yadav of Pipara Jagdish village under Bihia police station was married to Munna Yadav son of Sri Bhagwan Yadav of Dharahara village under Bihia police station in the year 2018 and she had a son with the marriage. He said that the deceased’s parents blamed that the in-laws tortured her for merely a gold chain and a motorcycle and when their demands were not fulfilled, they strangulated her to death. The SHO said that the in-laws were preparing to perform her last rites when the police, on information, reached the spot  and recovered the body and brought it to the Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem. The police also arrested the father-in-law and the mother-in-law from the spot though the husband and the sister-in-law escaped from the scene.