Tax officer’s husband held for dowry harassment

Gurgaon, Oct 4 (IANS) An excise and taxation officer’s husband, also working in the same department at a similar post, was arrested here for dowry harassment, police said Friday. Aadityatendra Singh, in his mid-20s, a resident of Good Luck Tower Society in Sector 52, was arrested Thursday for cruelty against his wife, criminal breach of trust and intimidation, police said. Aadityatendra Singh’s mother and sister were also booked on similar charges, police said. The brother-in-law of Aadityatendra Singh was booked for raping the victim, police said, adding that they were investigating if the allegation was true. The victim, a resident of Officers Colony and daughter of a senior officer in Haryana, said in her complaint: “I married Aadityatendra July 7, 2012. I was often humiliated, thrashed by my husband and his family for dowry.” “The family demanded a flat in Gurgaon. I was badly humiliated and harassed by the family last Diwali for not fulfilling the demand,” she said. Aadityatendra was Friday presented in a Gurgaon court which sent him to a day’s police custody, a police official said. “The husband and wife are Class-2 officers in the same department but one is posted in Gurgaon and while the other is posted in Faridabad,” police said. Owing to the alleged dowry harassment and torture, the victim had a few months ago started to live separately from her husband and family, which is originally from the Dadri area of Bhiwani district of Haryana, police said. 

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