A case of burning a married woman to death has come to light in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. The woman admitted to the Trauma Center in Varanasi died during treatment. Before her death, the woman told that her in-laws had poured petrol on her and set her on fire. Based on the statement of the woman, the police have registered a case and started investigation. On the other hand, the family members of the woman have blocked the state highway near the district hospital and demanded action.
The woman burnt to death under suspicious circumstances on the state highway near the district hospital of Robertsganj Kotwali area. After which the family members blocked the road and demanded strict action from the administration. Police said that Akanksha Pandey, a resident of Shivdwar in Ghoraval Kotwali area, was admitted to Varanasi Trauma Center. Where he died under suspicious circumstances. When she was brought to the trauma center, she was badly burnt.
The woman was burnt on 2 November
This matter is being told of 2nd November. Deceased Akanksha Pandey gave a statement before her death that her in-laws had poured petrol on her and set her on fire. A video of deceased Akanksha Pandey has also surfaced in which she is telling that mother-in-law, father-in-law, husband, both brothers-in-law were present at that time. When she started running away from the room after the fire, these people closed the room. She kept screaming but no one heard her pain. Meanwhile, the police officers who arrived on the information of the family members blocking the road, somehow understood the angry family members and people and got the traffic restored.
Interrogation continues with father-in-law and husband
CO Charu Dwivedi said that on November 2, a woman was admitted to the Trauma Center Varanasi in a burnt condition. The woman died on Sunday evening. The deceased was a resident of Shivdwar in Ghoraval Kotwali area. He died yesterday evening. The relatives of the deceased took the body from Varanasi to Sonbhadra District Hospital and blocked the road by placing it on the state highway. Protests started, family members say that their daughter was burnt to death due to dowry. The family members were also angry because after filing a case, no accused from the in-laws’ side has been arrested yet. Here the CO told that the husband and father-in-law are being caught and interrogated.