GREATER NOIDA: A 26-year-old resident of Greater Noida’s Dankor police station area had to spend seven months in jail on charges of murdering his wife who was neither dead nor had faced any threat to her life.
The woman’s statement — after she was found out by the husband’s younger brother — that she had actually been sold to a man named Satish for prostitution, was also found to be false.
The man got bail only after the National Human Rights Commission had instructed the Noida police to take speedy action in the case. Police though have not yet bothered to find out whose body they had handed to the bride’s parents to cremate. The man meanwhile continues to face dowry harassment charges.
It all began when taxi driver Rakesh Awana married Anita, daughter of Mahendra Singh of Bulandshahr, in June 1998. According to Awana’s lawyer, Ankur Nagar, "Anita mysteriously disappeared on December 24, 2005. A week later, her father filed a report at the Dankor police station alleging that she had been murdered by Rakesh. Rakesh’s brother, Mukesh, had found a woman’s body in village Sirsa, also in the Dankor police station’s jurisdiction."
Nagar said that despite his client, Rakesh, protesting that the body was much too small and too decomposed to be that of Anita’s, police arrested him for the murder of his wife.
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