In-laws inject bahu with HIV-infected needle after family fails to meet dowry demands in Uttar Pradesh | Meerut News

MEERUT: A court in Saharanpur has ordered UP police to file a criminal complaint against the in-laws of a 30-year-old woman for allegedly injecting her with an HIV-infected syringe after her parents failed to meet dowry demands. Police said a case has been registered following the court’s directions.
Saharanpur SP (rural) Sagar Jain said, “The victim is a resident of Saharanpur. We have lodged an FIR against her husband (32), brother-in-law (38), sister-in-law (35), and mother-in-law (56) under IPC section 307 (attempt to murder), 498A (cruelty against woman by husband or his relatives), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 328 (causing harm by administering poison), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and relevant dowry sections at Gangoh police station.
‘Demanded additional Rs 10 lakh cash, bigger SUV as dowry’
“We’re probing the case minutely.” Police said, as per the allegation, the incident took place at the woman’s in-laws’ house in Haridwar in May 2024.
The woman’s father stated before court that he married off his daughter in Feb 2023, and spent nearly Rs 45 lakh on the wedding. “We gave a sub-compact SUV and Rs 15 lakh in cash to the groom’s family, but they demanded an additional Rs 10 lakh cash and a bigger SUV,” he said.
“They (victim’s in-laws) started harassing her immediately after the wedding day. They humiliated my daughter and even told her that they would get another wife for their son. She was kicked out of her marital home on March 25, 2023, and for the next three months, she lived with us until the village panchayat intervened. Thereafter, she was sent back to her husband’s house, and soon she was again subjected to physical and mental torture,” the father said in the police complaint.
“In May 2024, her in-laws forcibly injected her with an HIV-infected syringe, and her health deteriorated rapidly. Medical tests later confirmed her HIV-positive status, while her husband was found HIV-negative,” he added.
The father claimed that when he went to police to lodge a complaint, Gangoh station house officer (SHO) Rogent Tyagi told them to “first get orders from higher authorities”. And when they approached Saharanpur SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan, he did not pay any heed to their complaint, the woman’s father alleged in the FIR.
Left with no other option, the family approached the court. When TOI asked about the matter, SHO Tyagi refuted the allegations.