NAGPUR: Tortured by her husband and in-laws torture for dowry, a woman committed suicide with her 9-year-old daughter at Aashirwad Nagar, Sakkardara, on Tuesday night. The bodies of Tarrannum Shaikh, 23, and her daughter Jainab Fatima were found floating in a well near her Aashirwad Nagar residence. Police have arrested Tarrannum's husband and four in-laws.

While Sakkardara police claimed it was a suicide, Tarrannum's relatives have alleged murder. Her parents claimed that her in-laws and husband killed the mother-daughter duo and threw the bodies into the well.

The suicide led to tension at Sakkardara police station for an hour on Wednesday afternoon, when the parents and relatives of the deceased staged a protest with the bodies. The bodies were later taken for cremation after cops assured to register a case against the accused.

On a complaint filed by Tarrannum's father, Mohammad Shafi, 57, a resident of Kuhi, police booked husband Firoz Shaikh, 30, and in-laws Gulab Shabeer, 55, Khursheed Shabeer, 52, Mohammad Waseem, 27, and Tabassum Sabeer, 19, all residents of Aashirwad Nagar for abetment to suicide and dowry death.

Relatives said Shafi owns a well settled transport business. Shafi claimed in his police complaint that at the time of Tarrannum's marriage in April 2012 he had given Rs 3 lakh dowry. Despite this, Firoz Shaikh and his parents were demanding Rs 5 lakh cash and 3 acre land from Tarrannum. Shaikh wanted to start a goat farm. His father is an agent at Cotton Market.

Firoz and his parents were torturing Tarrannum for dowry from past many months. The neighbours said that on Tuesday Tarrannum and her daughter had gone to meet her hospitalized uncle, who had met with an accident. However, when she returned home, Firoz and her in-laws thrashed her badly and threw her and Jainab Fatima out of the house.

The next morning, neighbours found their bodies floating in the well. No suicide note was found by police. The bodies were shifted for post mortem to Government Medical College and Hospital.

Police have also booked Tarrannum for her daughter's murder.

