Four persons of a family have been arrested here on charges of harassing their newly wed daughter-in-law for dowry following which she committed suicide, police said today.
Twenty-four-year-old Sameer Sudhakar Wadekar was married to Trupti last year. After few days, her in-laws started making exorbitant demands. The harassment increased day by day and she was locked in a room and not given any food, according to a complaint filed by the victim's father.
Fed up with the constant torture, Trupti hung herself to death with the help of a rope, police said.
Her body has been sent for postmortem and foursome--Sameer Wadekar, his mother Sushma (40) sisters Sunita (19) and Supriya (20) have been booked under several sections of the IPC.