Bihar woman found living with lover while husband served jail for her ‘murder'

 

In what is being suspected to be a case of a love triangle, a woman who was declared dead in Motihari district of Bihar was found living with her lover in Jalandhar. What is even more shocking is that her husband was serving punishment in jail for her alleged 'murder'.

The woman, identified as Shanti Devi, married Dinesh Ram, a resident of Laxmipur, on June 14, 2016. Years after marriage, Shanti allegedly ran away from her husband's home on April 19 and went to live with her paramour in Punjab.

After the woman went missing, her family members approached the police and accused the husband of dowry harassment and also alleged that he had murdered her. Acting on the complaint of the victim's kin, police arrested Dinesh and he was sent to jail on murder charges.

Shanti's father, Yogendra Yadav, had told police, "My daughter married Dinesh Ram in 2016 but on April 19, I received information that she was nowhere to be found. I went to her in-laws' house and checked but in vain. Last year, my daughter was tortured for dowry as her in-laws had demanded a motorbike and Rs 50,000 cash."

He then filed an FIR against Dinesh, following which he was arrested.

However, things took an interesting turn when the Station House Officer smelled a rat and urged the technical team to trace the mobile phone location of Shanti. With the help of technical surveillance, police found that the woman, who was declared dead, was actually living with her lover in Jalandhar district of Punjab.

A police team was constituted after the matter came to light and the woman was brought back to Motihari.