Dowry death accused freed from jail after wife seen with beau
THE ACCUSED MOTHER FOUND HER ‘DEAD’ DAUGHTERINLAW IN JABALPUR, WHERE SHE WAS LIVING WITH HER PARAMOUR
A man lodged in jail for allegedly killing his wife in Muzaffarpur district, 75 km from Patna, may soon walk free as the ‘dead’ wife has been found alive and living with her paramour.
Manoj Kumar, a resident of Jagannath Dokra village in Saraiya police station area, was arrested and booked in a dowry death case after his wife Rinki Kumari disappeared on April 8, 2015, almost a year after their marriage.
Rinki’s parents not only accused Kumar and his family of killing her for dowry but also identified a body, found in the village a few days later, as that of their daughter.
“The police promptly arrested my son and sent him to jail,” said Kumar’s mother Lalita Devi, who succeeded in locating her ‘dead’ daughterin-law after two years of relentless effort.
“Not convinced with the police investigation, I started looking for Rinki at all possible places. My search took me to Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh where her father, an armyman, had been posted. About six months ago, I was able to locate Rinki, who was living in Jabalpur with her paramour, Mayur Mallick, of Sariaya,” Devi said.
“I immediately contacted Saraiya police station SHO Santosh Mishra, an IPS probationer, who sent a police team to Jabalpur to arrest Rinki and Mallick,” she said.
Rinki Kumari and Mallick were brought here on Thursday and produced in the court of subdivisional judicial magistrate. While Rinki Kumari has been sent to a shelter home, Mallick is under police custody. They would be produced in the court on Monday. “After recording of their statement in the court, the proceedings will be initiated to free Kumar,” the SHO said.
He said Kumar had been booked under sections 304B (dowry death) and 201 (tampering with the evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. “Section 304B of IPC entails a jail term of seven years to life imprisonment,” he said.
Meanwhile, Rinki Kumari told police that she had been seeing Mallick even before she was married to Kumar against her wishes.
Ruining saris of guests at a wedding reception by mischievous friends, proved costly for a Punebased groom, when the Gujarat-born woman he was to marry, called it quits.
What infuriated the bride and her family was the rustic behaviour of the groom’s friends, as they mischievously threw food at each other during the wedding reception. In playing pranks, they not only hurt the sentiments of guests, but also spoilt their saris.
The bride, a fashion designer in Gujarat, dumped Subhash Sharma, a computer engineer, who also holds an MBA degree. Citing ‘incompatibility’, she walked out of the mandap after the jaimaala in Rohtas district, 150 km of Patna. For the third time in Bihar this month, a young woman in bridal finery has refused to go ahead with her scheduled wedding at the last moment, after finding the groom and members of his wedding party, in an inebriated condition in flagrant violation of the liquor ban.
The incident took place Thursday at Dumari village in Musahari police station area of Muzaffarpur district.