Woman commits suicide after in-laws harassment, four arrested

Kolkata June 18 (IANS) A married woman fed up of harassment by her in-laws allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in West Bengal s Howrah district on Sunday police said.

A woman who was married for five years consumed poison on Saturday night at her in-law s house in Howrah s Domjur. She expired at a local hospital on Sunday afternoon said an officer from Domjur police station.

However he refused to give her name citing privacy issues.

According to police the woman s father lodged a complaint against the woman s husband and in-laws for constantly heckling and torturing her for the last few years.

The woman was allegedly harassed by her husband and in-laws. We have arrested deceased s husband mother in law sister in law and her husband after the complaint the officer said.

The four accused are charged under IPC s section 498 for the alleged subjecting a married woman to cruelty. They would be produced to the court on Monday he added.

--IANS
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