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The case pertains to the brutal assault and killing of 28-year-old Nikki, who was killed by her husband and in-laws by beating her up and setting her on fire in Greater Noida.
The police arrested Nikki’s mother-in-law, Dayawati from Kasna. (News18)
Noida Dowry Murder: In a significant development, the Gautam Buddha Nagar police have arrested the mother-in-law of the woman, who was killed after being beaten up and set on fire in Greater Noida for dowry, from Kasna on Sunday.
The case pertains to the brutal assault and killing of 28-year-old Nikki, who was killed by her husband and in-laws by beating her up and setting her on fire at their residence in Greater Noida’s Sirsa village on Thursday over ferquent dowry demands.
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Kanchan, the woman’s elder sister who is married in the same family, said that they were being tortured by in-laws and their husbands for Rs 35 lakh dowry, despite all their demands, which included expensive gifts like Scorpio, Bullet bike and gold, being met earlier.
The accused husband, Vipin Bhati, was arrested a day earlier on Friday. However, he was shot at in the leg in an encounter with the UP Police while he was trying to escape custody.
Officials said that he was trying to escape custody, prompting the police to open fire on his leg.
“We had come here to recover the bottles of inflammable liquid which he threw after using them to set her on fire. We recovered the bottles but around that time, he snatched the Inspector’s pistol and tried to run. When the police surrounded him, he tried to fire on us. In self-defence, the police also fired and the bullet hit his leg. He has been sent to the hospital for treatment,” the officer said.
Nikki, the woman who died, had married into a family in Greater Noida’s Sirsa village in 2016, and her sister Kanchan said the torture for dowry began just six months later. Nikki, she said, was thrashed by her in-laws on Thursday night and then set ablaze in front of her son.
Horrific videos of the incident surfaced online, showing the husband dragging Nikki by her hair and unleashing a brutal assault on her. In another video, the victim woman was seen in flames on the stairs.
As she was being transferred from Fortis Hospital in Noida to Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, she succumbed to her injuries on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Vipin claimed that he did not kill Nikki, the victim, and “she died on her own”. Videos of him brutally assaulting his wife surfaced online, but he said that he has “no remorse”.
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Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben…Read More
Shobhit Gupta is a sub-editor at News18.com and covers India and International news. He is interested in day to day political affairs in India and geopolitics. He earned his BA Journalism (Hons) degree from Ben… Read More
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