14 October,2010 08:50 AM IST | | Salil Uraunkar
Physical and mental torture by in-laws for not bearing male child drives 40-yr-old woman to suicide; police register case against husband
Au00a040-Years Oldu00a0woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself after suffering harassment from her in-laws for almost 20 years because she had not borne a male child.
Kanta Adinath Avtade (40), a resident of Thergaon, hanged herself at home yesterday, said the Hinjewadi police, who registered a case of abetment of suicide against her husband Adinath Vishwanath Avtade.
Kanta's brother Baburao Vitthal Gadhve (51), a resident of Kharadi, filed the complaint.
The police said Adinath and Kanta were married 20 years ago, and the couple had a seven-year-old daughter.
The complaint said soon after they were married, Adinath and his family began harassing Kanta but she kept mum about the ill treatment.
"The in-laws of Kanta were basically harassing her because they wanted a son, but Kanta had delivered a girl child. They also wanted Kanta to bring Rs 20 lakh from her parents as dowry, which she didn't," Baburao said in the complaint.
Fed up of the everyday taunts and other forms of physical and mental harassment, Kanta ended her life.
"A first information report has been lodged against Adinath Avtade and he will be arrested soon," said an official of the Hinjewadi police station. Police sub-inspector R S Kadam is investigating the case.
