‘Can’t give bike, cash, jewellery? Donate kidney’: Bihar woman faces dowry demand from in-laws
Patna: In a disturbing and bizarre case of dowry harassment, a woman from Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district has accused her in-laws of demanding that she donate one of her kidneys to her ailing husband after she failed to provide the expected dowry, which included a bike, cash, and jewellery.
The woman, identified as Dipti, filed a complaint with the women’s police station in Muzaffarpur, detailing the harrowing treatment she endured after her marriage in 2021, as reported by The New Indian Express on Wednesday.
Dipti had moved into her in-laws' residence in the Bochaha police station area after her marriage. For the first two years, Dipti described a relatively peaceful marital life. However, tensions began when her in-laws started pressuring her for dowry, demanding she bring a bike and money from her parental home. When she was unable to meet these unreasonable demands, the physical and mental harassment escalated, and the family allegedly started coercing her to donate one of her kidneys to her ailing husband.
“I came to know about my husband’s kidney ailment after two years of my marriage, though he was suffering from it before marriage. Initially, I took their demand casually, but later, they started exerting pressure on me. When I refused to oblige them, I was beaten black and blue and thrown out of the house,” TNIE quoted Dipti as saying.
In an attempt to resolve the situation, police intervened and tried to mediate between the parties, but their efforts were unsuccessful.
Dipti also insisted on getting a divorce from her husband, which he rejected.
As a result, a case was registered at the district women’s police station, with four members of her husband’s family, including the husband himself, named as accused in the complaint.
Further investigation is currently ongoing in this case.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
