Two Arrested As Police Smells Dowry Death
Updated on 19 February, 2008
Shivani(24) had been married to Anand Kumar Sinha working with merchant Navy in Surat way back in 2004. Accroding to brother and family members, Shivani had been tortured for dowry time-to-time by their in-laws. His brother said that Shivani was a simple girl who tolerates tortures silently but briefs to them sometime when tortures went ahead limits. According to Vimal Kumar, the father of Shivani, she has been hanged to death in her room deliberately to pose as a suicide. The police team find the body of Shivani hanged from the fan in the house of her in-laws on tuesday morning. A FIR has been lodged in this connection and both the younger and elder brother-in-law has been arrested by the Bahadurpur police. The body has been sent for post-mortem. The police team is investigating the matter at its level and trying to unearth facts from the neighbours about the in-laws of Shivani.