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Jind woman’s suicide: Family alleges threat from cops
Parvesh Sharma
Tribune News Service

“After the registration of an abetment to suicide case against the policemen on Friday, senior officers have been putting pressure on us to strike a compromise. We were taken to the police station where the policemen forcibly took our signatures on some blank papers” alleged Shamsher. On Friday, the police had registered an abetment to suicide case against 11 persons — five inspectors (two retired), a head constable and five residents of Dhanauri village — for abetting the suicide of the 35-year-old woman.

As per the case details, three men had allegedly barged into the victim’s house last April when she was alone and assaulted her. Since then, she had been struggling to get justice. On Friday, the devastated victim consumed poison and killed herself.

“We will write to the President to allow us to end our lives and also try to meet him. The policemen are openly threatening to implicate use in false case if we don’t compromise with their colleagues. There is no one we can turn to for justice. If we can’t live a life of respect, at least allow us a respectable death,” said Shamsher. Narwana DSP Puran Chand denied Shamsher’s claims and said they had started investigations and would not spare the guilty. “We have arrested two accused and started a thorough probe,” he said.

Kin go into hiding

* The victim’s brother Shamsher Singh alleged the police were pressuring the family to “compromise” with the policemen named in her suicide note and the FIR

* The family has fled its home and wants to approach President Pranab Mukherjee for permission “to end their lives”.