Woman dies of burn injuries, parents blame in-laws

Mystery shrouds the death of a woman who succumbed to her burn injuries when she was taken to hospital at Mayureswar in Birbhum.

The victim's family members alleged that she was tortured and set on fire. However, the police were told by her in-laws that she set herself on fire in their house on Thursday night and her husband also received burn injuries while trying to save her.

A senior police officer of Birbhum district said that they have started an unnatural death case and they would probe into all possible angles of the incident.

The woman was admitted to hospital on Thursday late night and she succumbed to her injuries on Friday morning.

The allegations have also been levelled against the victim's in-laws that they had set the woman on fire as her parents failed to give them money and they forced the woman to walk around 3 km on railway tracks.

They left the woman on the railway tracks. Later, the woman was taken to the hospital where she succumbed on Friday morning.

The police officer said that they haven't received any such complaint yet. But they have initiated a case to probe in this connection.

The police will be taking statements of the victim's parents and at the same time, they would try to find whether there was any foul play by the victim's in-laws.

A police officer said that even if they consider that the woman had committed suicide, then there must be a reason behind it. The police are trying to know that what had happened on Thursday night that led to the incident.

In another incident at Rajarhat, a 19-year-old housewife committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her parental house. She was married three months ago and went to her parental home on Thursday.

She committed suicide when her father went out of their house for some work and her brother was deep asleep in an adjacent room. Later, they found the woman hanging from the ceiling fan. They informed the local people and police too reached the spot. They brought down the woman and took her to a local hospital where she was declared brought dead. Police sent the body for an autopsy.

Police came to know that the woman came to her paternal home as her husband went out of station for some work. The police are yet to

ascertain the exact reason that prompted the woman to take the extreme step.