Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, Oct 20 : Under the guidance of Senior Superintendent of Police Samba Benam Tosh, Samba police has solved mysterious death case of young pregnant lady, Jyoti Devi of Redwan Ramgarh and arrested five accused including husband for committing dowry death.
The arrested have been identified as Kala Ram (husband of the deceased), Satpal, Bodh Raj alias Parshotam and two others.
The arrests were made under the overall supervision of SSP Samba, Benam Tosh.
Police said on June 22 this year police initiated inquest proceedings at Police Station (PS) Ramgarh vide DDR No. 21 to ascertain the actual cause of death of 24-year-old Jyoti Devi wife of Kala Ram of Redwan tehsil Ramgarh district Samba whose marriage was solemnized just one & half year before and who was on family way having eight months unborn child and who died under mysterious circumstances with her unborn child.
Police conducted inquest in highly professional manner, collected scientific, documentary and oral evidence and concluded that it was a dowry death case as the deceased was subjected to cruelty and harassment making demand of dowry by the accused immediately before her mysterious death.
Police has converted inquest proceedings U/S 174 CrPC into FIR No.69/2023 U/S 304 -B, 313 IPC and started investigation. Five accused have been arrested and investigation is underway.
The accused have been arrested by the police team comprising of SHO Police Station, Ramgarh Amit Kumar, PSI Deepak Sharma under the supervision of SDPO Vijaypur Rohit Kumar and Additional SP Samba, Surinder Choudhary.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Samba, Benam Tosh said that police is expeditiously solving mysterious death cases on merits in Samba district and bringing to book all accused involved in abetment to suicides, dowry deaths, domestic violence, harassment and torture of the deceased persons.