Mumbai police book man for beating wife

After eloping to get married, due to both parents’ refusal, Indu Shukla had never imagined she would face dowry demands from her husband. Nor that he would leave her in Allahabad on the pretext of hunting for a job in Mumbai and try to remarry.

After facing excessive political and media pressure, the Bhandup police on Wednesday, after dilly-dallying for almost a week, registered a case against her husband Hemant and relatives for dowry harassment, molestation and assault under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. Shrirang Nadgowda, senior inspector said, “We have recorded Indu’s statement and will take necessary action.”

“We had submitted all the required proof including the CD, which shows how brutally Indu was hit. The police still took so long to take action,” said Rajesh Pandey, her sister’s husband.

Indu was allegedly brutally beaten up and nearly strangulated by Hemant and his relatives after she, her sister and her husband and 25 to 30 local women barged in at the venue where Hemant was allegedly remarrying on March 7.

Indu had been admitted to Aggarwal hospital and had not been in a condition to speak till March 15.

According to Indu’s family, Hemant left her in 2004 saying he was going to Mumbai to look for a job and did not keep in touch with her for nearly six years. They got in touch in 2010 and he started making dowry demands. However, when her friends in her village Birauti in Uttar Pradesh informed her that the villagers had received Hemant’s wedding invitation, she landed in the city.