MARRIED WOMAN STRANGULATED TO DEATH

Ara, 5 November 2022, (RNI): One married woman was strangulated to death at Badgaon-Nariyadih village under Azimabad police station in Bhojpur district. The deceased was identified as Ramita Devi 20 wife of Om Prakash Chaudhary merely for a gold chain and a gold ring. Later the police brought the body to the Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem. An FIR was lodged with the police under Azimabad police station in this regard and the police are investigating the matter and conducting raids to arrest the miscreants.

Quoting the FIR, the SHO Azimabad police station said that Ramita Devi daughter of Bhim Chaudhary of Maneni village under Charpokhari police station in Bhojpur district was married to Om Prakash Chaudhary son of Pukar Chaudhary of Badgaon village under Azimabad police station in May on 2020. Since marriage, the husband and her in-laws tortured her physically and mentally for a gold chain and a gold ring and when their demands were not fulfilled, the in-laws strangulated her to death. When they were taking the body Nariyadih burial site to erase evidence, her uncle Shiv Kumar Chaudhary saw at Badgaon Bazaar and protested. But the in-laws beat him up and escaped from the scene leaving the body behind. Meanwhile, family members of the deceased reached there.