A Delhi court sentenced three members of a family, including the husband, to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for abetting her suicide over dowry demands.
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has sentenced three members of a family, including the husband of the deceased, to seven years' rigorous imprisonment for abetting her suicide over dowry demands.
"It is evident that a young bride was harassed and treated with cruelty by her mother-in-law Krishna Devi, husband Vikas and brother-in-law Vivek, which forced her to commit suicide," said Additional Sessions Judge RK Yadav.
It also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 each on all the convicts, out of which, Rs 50,000 shall be given to the parents of deceased Sanju.
Earlier, it rejected the defence plea that the victim was a known case of depression with convulsion disorders and had committed suicide due to this behavioural symptom and said she was in reactive depression owing to perennial torture by the convicts at her matrimonial home.
Dismissing the leniency plea of the three convicts, the court said "keeping in view the inhuman ways Sanju (victim) was treated; I do not find it a fit case where persons can be enlarged on probation or dealt with leniency".
It, however, exonerated two other accused in the case, father-in-law and a brother-in-law of the deceased, of the charges for want of evidence.
The prosecution built its case with the help of 24 witnesses, including the father of the victim, Mahesh Chand who testified that his daughter complained several times of callous treatment by her in-laws.
The accused were convicted under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 498A (subjecting a woman to cruelty) of IPC.
Sanju, mother of a girl baby committed suicide by hanging herself with a ligature in her matrimonial home at Yamuna Vihar in East Delhi.
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