2019-04-22 BSP man accused of trying to set wife on fire, booked
India Apr 22 2019 “Other”
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BSP man accused of trying to set wife on fire, booked
Updated: 2019–04–22
GHAZIABAD: A woman on Sunday lodged a police complaint against her husband, a BSP functionary, for allegedly trying to set her on fire one and a half months ago. She accused him of domestic violence and criminal intimidation.
Based on her complaint, an FIR was registered against the accused under IPC sections 326 A (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by use of acid, etc), 498 A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 506 (criminal intimidation) at Kavi Nagar police station.
The accused’s father and the couple’s teenaged son have also been named in the FIR, the police said. In the complaint, the victim’s father stated that on March 14, the accused set the woman on fire after pouring paint thinner, resulting in 35% burn injuries.
“The man used to pressurise my daughter for a share in my retirement funds,” the father said. The woman’s brother said his sister married the accused in 2003 and they have a 14-year-old son.
He claimed that the “torture” started after the BSP man’s father retired in 2016. The family had paid the accused Rs 7 lakh for buying a car and a plot of land, he told police. “In the last three years, she has been beaten up badly several times. My brother-in-law demanded Rs 20 lakh from my father. My sister was against it. We got to know that he set her on fire, 15 hours after the incident. She was first taken to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi and then admitted to a private hospital in Sambhal. He left the hospital saying that he had been assigned duty in the Lok Sabha polls, but never came back,” the brother claimed.
He added that when his brother-in-law did not allow the victim to enter her house on Sunday, they approached the cops. Meanwhile, the BSP leader brushed all allegations aside saying that his wife had set herself on fire.
The accused added that he had filed a divorce petition in December 2018 at a Ghaziabad family court. Notably, an FIR was lodged in January after the woman accused her neighbour of rape.
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