BAHRAICH: A woman was beaten to death by in-laws after her failed to provide motorcycle in dowry . The body was later hanged from the thatched roof to give it a look of suicide. A case of murder was lodged against four persons on the complaint of woman's father. In another case, a woman has lodged a complaint with ASP alleging that village pradhan had tried to rape her daughter-in-law.

According to reports, Chinak Prasad of Puraini village under Dargah Shareef police station married his daughter Mamta (23) with Babulal of Azad Nagar under Risia police station three years ago. Following 'gauna' Mamta reached her in-laws' house a year ago.

Soon after, she was tortured by in-laws as their demand of motorcycle was not fulfilled. Chinak told the cops that he had promised to gift the bike once his financial condition improved. However, the tortured continued. On Thursday, he received calls from Azad Nagar informing that his daughter was beaten to death. Chinak Prasad reached there along with his family and found Mamta's body hanging from the roof. There were injury marks all over the body.

Station officer (SO) Awadhnarayan Yadav said that a case of dowry death was registered against Mamta's husband Babu Lal, father-in-law Munnu Lal and two others. The SO said that the actual cause of murder would be revealed after the postmortem report. SO said that the accused were absconding but would be arrested soon.

In another incident, a woman has accused village pradhan of attempt to rape her daughter-in-law under Jarwal Road police station. She also submitted an application to the ASP alleging that the pradhan had threatened to burn her entire family if she dared to lodge a complaint.

According to her complaint, on June 13, she had gone out of the village along with her daughter-in-law, when pradhan Laxmikant Singh arrived on the scene and abused and beat her daughter-in-law. He even tried to rape her. ASP Sunil Kumar Singh has ordered SO Jarwal Road police station.

