NAKODAR
The Nakodar Sadar police have arrested a couple for dowry harassment, cruelty, and committing the crime with common intention.
The Investigating officer (IO) Tirath Ram said that the accused have been identified as Malkit Singh a resident of Nawan Pind Aaryan and father of the main accused Nachhtar Pal alias Sonu, and his wife Kulwindar Kaur.
The victim had complained to Jalandhar (rural) Senior Superintendent of Police and the police that her marriage was solemnized with Nachhtar Pal but after some time she was harassed for dowry and her in-laws tortured and beat her.
She had said in her complaint that her husband often sodomized her, video graphed her while bathing, and tortured her in all ways and other members of the in-law family were in the league in torturing her.
IO said that a case under 498-A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) 377(unnatural offenses) and 34(committing the crime with common intention) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the accused after an inquiry.