Dowry death: Man held for abetting wife’s murder

MUMBAI: The Sion police arrested a man in connection with the death of his wife, who was allegedly harassed for dowry and then strangled in Sion on Friday.

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Anil Gupta, 25, told the police that his wife, Sunita, 23, had hanged herself. His lie was caught after the police determined that the height of the room was too low for her to have done so. Sunita’s body was taken to Sion hospital, where a post-mortem revealed that she was strangled. Her father-in-law Paraslal, 50, and mother-in-law Lakhidevi have been booked in connection with the crime. Cops suspect they strangled Sunita with a dupatta.

Police said the in-laws frequently harassed and beat Sunita for dowry. The trio has been booked under IPC sections 304B (dowry death) and 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty).