RAMBAN: A husband and his mother have been arrested for strangulating housewife to death in Pasyal Dharalta area of Batote, here.
As per police sources, on January 23 this year, an information was received telephonically from Sarpanch Panchayat Halqa Thopal that a lady namely Nishu Devi (23), wife of Pawan Kumar of Pasyal Dharalta, Batote has committed suicide by hanging herself in her house.
As the death occurred in suspicious circumstances, inquest proceeding under Section 174 CrPC was initiated by Batote Police to ascertain the actual cause of the death.
Police party was immediately sent to the crime scene and on reaching there they took the dead body of the deceased in police custody for post-mortem.
The post-mortem of the deceased was conducted by a Board of Doctors which was requisitioned by the Enquiry Officer (EO) in District Hospital Ramban.
After post-mortem, the dead body was handed over to the legal heirs for last rites.
During the course of enquiry, parents of the deceased alleged that their daughter has been murdered by her in-laws as she was already being harassed and tortured by her husband and in-laws since marriage.
During sustained questioning, the husband of the deceased, Pawan Kumar, confessed that he had murdered his wife by strangulating her and to mislead the police, he hung her so that the death looks like suicide.
On his confession, the inquest proceedings were closed and a case under FIR Number 11/2022 under Sections 302 and 109 IPC was registered at Police Station Batote and investigation initiated.
Police team headed by SHO Batote visited the scene of crime, collected evidence and recorded the statements of witnesses. Both accused, namely Pawan Kumar and his mother Simla Devi were immediately arrested.
Further investigation into the case is going on.
The arrests were made by SHO Batote Inspector Ajeet Singh under supervision of DySP Headquarters Ramban, Pardeep Singh Sen and SP Ramban Mohita Sharma.
