BIJNOR: In a shocking case, a 32-year-old woman allegedly burnt herself after she got into a tiff with her husband because he didn’t like the food she prepared due to less salt in it, on Thursday night. She poured

over herself and died at the spot, family members said. However, the girl’s family has approached the police and filed an FIR alleging that her husband and in-laws have killed her after pouring kerosene on her. The body has been sent for postmortem and police is investigating the matter.

The woman-Pinki’s family belongs to Ghaziabad and her marriage was performed with Dinesh Kumar of Kot Jafar village under Chandpur police station area in 2009. She is survived by three children including two girls and one boy.

On Friday morning, police was informed by the family members of the woman and later they filed a compliant against her in-laws including husband Dinesh for killing her for dowry.

According to Chandpur station house officer Virendra Singh, “Police have registered a case of murder for dowry against Dinesh Kumar, his father Umrav Singh, Dinesh’s brother

, sister in law Usha, mother Munni Devi, sister Mamata and nephew Dixit Kumar.”

“The body of the deceased was sent to district hospital for autopsy. Police have detained the husband of the deceased, Dinesh Kumar. During the interrogation, Dinesh told the cops that it was a

suicide

case. Pinki had prepared food on Thursday night and she forgot to put the proper quantity of salt in the food. This enraged him. And later it led to an altercation between husband and wife. Pinki immolated herself.” Singh claimed.

Though the father of the deceased has alleged that his daughter was murdered for dowry. He alleged, “My son-in-law used to beat her for dowry. My daughter gave birth to a baby girl first time. After this, Dinesh and his family members started taunting her and treated her badly. Second time also, my daughter gave birth to a baby girl. After this, the behaviour of her in-laws became very rude. They started beating her and demanded dowry. Third time she gave birth to a baby boy who is one and a half years old now. This time around they again asked for more dowry. When we failed to fulfill their demand, they killed my daughter.”

According to police , a case has been registered against the accused based on the complaint of the victim’s family on Friday.