Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh): Police booked Gwalior Municipal Corporation Deputy Commissioner Atibal Singh Yadav, along with his family members, over alleged harassment of his daughter-in-law over dowry, officials said. Superintendent of Police Amit Sanghi said that Atibal's daughter-in-law Rekha has accused Atibal, his son Arun Yadav and his family of dowry harassment adding a case has been registered in this regard and police are investigating.
In the police complaint, Rekha living in the Thattipur police station area of the city has alleged that since her marriage to Atibal's son Arun Yadav two years ago, the family is consistently harassing her over “less dowry”. She alleged that Atibal and her husband were demanding Rs 20 lakh from her as dowry despite her family has already paid Rs 90 lakh at the time of her marriage.
Rekha said that her father spent Rs 10 lakh on her engagement and Rs 15 lakh on marriage. She said her family had given Rs 90 lakh as dowry, including a Creta car, a gold bracelet and other jewellery for Arun and gold rings for the whole family. However a few days after the marriage, she got to hear the taunts of her in-laws over bringing “less dowry”, Rekha alleged.