AURANGABAD: A 22-year-old woman has been booked by the Waluj police on the charges of abetment of suicide after her husband killed himself on December 29. The woman has been accused of assaulting her husband, after he took objection to her alleged illicit relationship with another man. Following the argument, the husband, a farm labourer by occupation, committed suicide.

The woman, a resident of Ramrai village of Gangapur, has been booked on the complaint lodged by the deceased's father.

Police said that the deceased's father in his complaint to the Waluj police stated that when his son objected to the alleged illicit relationship of his wife with another man, the woman allegedly assaulted her husband.

Failing to convince his wife to end the relationship, the man ended his life by jumping from the top of a public water tank on December 29 and succumbed to the injuries the next day while being treated at the Government Medical College and Hospital.

