Family members and relatives of the deceased young woman protest at the Azadnagar police station in Jamshedpur. Picture Bhola Prasad

Jamshedpur, March 19: Pandemonium broke out at Azadnagar police station in Mango this afternoon following a protest by the relatives of a young woman who died at her in-law?s Zakirnagar residence early in the morning.

The anguished relatives of Rahena Parvin (19) went to the police station with the body and demanded that the police arrest the victim?s husband, Mohammed Samim and her in-laws, accusing them of torturing Parvin for dowry. Because of which, they alleged, she committed suicide.

When the police refused to lodge the FIR, the group raised slogans against the law-enforcers for nearly two hours. They calmed downonly after senior police officers, including deputy superintendent of police Sangeeta Kumari, reached there and directed the officers to accept the FIR.

According to police records, Samim was sleeping in the same room as his mother and younger sister. Early in the morning, when he went to Parvin?s room to use the bathroom there, he saw her body hanging. The police was informed and they sent the body to MGM Hospital for post-mortem.

?It was about 2.30 am when I saw Rahena hanging,? police quoted Samim as saying. Family members of the deceased alleged, Parvin was forced to commit suicide because of dowry demands from her in-laws. Her uncle, Salim Ahmed, said Parvin and Samim were married on November 26 last year and the groom had been paid Rs 50,000 as dowry. But after a few days, the husband and in-laws demanded Rs 1 lakh more, alleged Ahmed. When they failed to fulfil the demand immediately, he added, Samim declared that Parvin would not be allowed to meet her mother unless the demand was met.

?Though the distance between Rahena?s paternal and in-laws? house was just two km, she was not allowed to visit her ailing mother. Instead, her husband and other in-laws subjected Rahena to constant mental torture. Ultimately, my niece was compelled to commit suicide,? Ahmed claimed.

As soon as the deceased?s uncles learnt about the death, they rushed to the Azadnagar police station and wanted to lodge an FIR against the husband, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law.

But the police did not entertain the FIR, making the family members of the deceased furious.