A day after a 26-year-old housewife committed suicide at her residence in Kandivali (west) due to alleged harassment by her 29-year-old husband and father-in-law, the police arrested the two for abetting the crime. The two accused were produced before a magistrate’s court and sent to judicial custody.
According to the Charkop police, the incident took place on Saturday morning. The deceased, Shweta Matri, ended her life by hanging herself from the ceiling. Shweta had married Rajendra Matri (29) around four years ago and the couple was living in Diamond Apartments building located in Bharat Nagar with other family members. Rajendra is employed in the engineering department of a private firm.
Senior police inspector, Vasant Devarkar, of Charkop police station stated, “We are probing to find out if Rajendra’s family was unhappy with the gender of their 9-year-old. She had complained of harassment too.”
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Court upholds lifer
Age Correspondent
Mumbai, July 21
The Bombay high court, while upholding a lower court’s order, sentenced a man to life imprisonment for assaulting and raping his teenage daughter-in-law in 2006, stating that the offences expose “decay of human values”.
While hearing the matter, a division bench of Justices Mridula Bhatkar and V. K. Tahilramani, confirmed a Pune sessions court’s order against Sachin Fulsundar. According to the prosecution, the 19-year-old victim lived with her husband and parents-in-law and the accused was her distant father-in-law who lived nearby.
On April 28, 2006, when she was alone, Fulsundar went to her house, and said that his mother had asked her to come by. When the victim went there, he assaulted her with an axe and raped her.