Assaulted housewife dies, husband held in Guwahati
STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Geetashree Hazarika, wife of one Pradip Talukdar of Segunbari under the Fatasil Ambari Police Station, succumbed at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) on Wednesday where she had been admitted on March 18.
Police sources said that an FIR lodged by Geetashree's brother on March 18 alleged that she had been facing physical and mental torture in the name of dowry after her marriage to Talukdar in 2018. On March 17 last, the FIR alleged, Talukdar came home in an inebriated state and assaulted Geetashree. The next morning, Talukdar tried to strangulate Geetashree with a rope, following which she had to be admitted to the ICU at the GMCH.
Meanwhile, Talukdar has been already arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with a case (No. 60/22 u/s 498 (A)/307 IPC r/w Section 40 of Dowry Prohibition Act) registered at the Fatasil Ambari Police Station.
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