<p>A deputy superintendent of Tihar Jail and his 27-year-old son have been held for allegedly setting ablaze the young man’s wife for not fulfilling their dowry demands at south Delhi’s Mahipalpur.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Usha Singh, 25, has been admitted to Safdarjung Hospital with 65 per cent burns.<br />Gyan Singh, 50, is in-charge of Central Public Relations Office. His son Nitin works for a private security firm in Faridabad. <br /><br />Gyan and Nitin have been booked on charges of attempting to murder a woman and for harassing her over dowry. They have been lodged at jail number four in Tihar. <br />The victim’s mother-in-law’s role is also being probed, but she has not been arrested as she is paralytic. Usha has accused her mother-in-law of abusing her verbally.<br /><br />The police were informed of the incident around 4 pm on Wednesday when one of the neighbours called the police control room. “The neighbours heard the victim’s screams for help and poured water on her to douse the flames,” said a police officer.<br /><br />Since Usha and Nitin were married for less than seven years, her statement was recorded at the hospital by a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM).<br /><br />“The victim told the SDM that her in-laws had been harassing her for dowry ever since her marriage to Nitin three years ago. On Wednesday also, there was an argument between the victim and her father-in law. Gyan had been ordering her to get money from her maternal home and when she expressed her inability, he and his son beat her up,” said the officer.<br /></p>
<p>A deputy superintendent of Tihar Jail and his 27-year-old son have been held for allegedly setting ablaze the young man’s wife for not fulfilling their dowry demands at south Delhi’s Mahipalpur.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Usha Singh, 25, has been admitted to Safdarjung Hospital with 65 per cent burns.<br />Gyan Singh, 50, is in-charge of Central Public Relations Office. His son Nitin works for a private security firm in Faridabad. <br /><br />Gyan and Nitin have been booked on charges of attempting to murder a woman and for harassing her over dowry. They have been lodged at jail number four in Tihar. <br />The victim’s mother-in-law’s role is also being probed, but she has not been arrested as she is paralytic. Usha has accused her mother-in-law of abusing her verbally.<br /><br />The police were informed of the incident around 4 pm on Wednesday when one of the neighbours called the police control room. “The neighbours heard the victim’s screams for help and poured water on her to douse the flames,” said a police officer.<br /><br />Since Usha and Nitin were married for less than seven years, her statement was recorded at the hospital by a sub-divisional magistrate (SDM).<br /><br />“The victim told the SDM that her in-laws had been harassing her for dowry ever since her marriage to Nitin three years ago. On Wednesday also, there was an argument between the victim and her father-in law. Gyan had been ordering her to get money from her maternal home and when she expressed her inability, he and his son beat her up,” said the officer.<br /></p>
