Mystery shrouds death of pregnant housewife

Ludhiana, Jun 7 (UNI) Mystery shrouds the death of a young 4-month pregnant housewife at her New Model Town Extension residence in the city here last night.

Police were informed in the morning that 24-year old Amanpreet Kaur had committed suicide. The husband, Sukhdev Singh and his industrialist father told the police that Amanpreet had committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan and she had left a suicide note in Punjabi.

However the victims father in his complaint to the police alleged that his daughter had been murdered as the in-laws had been harassing her ever since her marriage in December last year. He even alleged that the in-laws had been making dowry demands from his daughter.

He even questioned the suicide note written in Punjabi and told the police that his daughter was more fluent in English.

The police later took into custody, Sukhdev Singh, the husband of the deceased under section 304-B of the IPC.

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