Hisar: SDO awarded seven years of hard labour in dowry death case

HISAR: Additional district and sessions judge Dr Pankaj has sentenced Haryana Police Housing Corporation SDO Navdeep to seven-year rigorous imprisonment and Rs 3,000 for killing his wife for dowry.


The Hisar city police station had registered a case of dowry death and cruelty against Navdeep on April 24, 2017.

The case was registered on the complaint of Navdeep’s father-in-law, who lives in Jiwan Nagar area of Rania in Sirsa district.

In his police complaint, Harbhej said he was a farmer and had married his daughter Yadpal Kaur to Navdeep, who was a resident of Shastri Nagar area in Bhuna of Fatehabad district , on November 19, 2011. He said Navdeep was then working as an engineer in the Haryana Police Housing Corporation and that he (Harbhej) had spent Rs 50 lakh to solemnise the marriage.

According to the complainant, Navdeep started harassing his daughter Yadpal Kaur for dowry barely three to four days after the marriage. Harbhej told cops that he spent around Rs 5 lakh when the couple was blessed with a son almost a year after the marriage. But Navdeep did not stop harassing his daughter, Harbhej added in his complaint.

He said that after some time, when Navdeep was transferred to Rohtak , he had bought a fridge, bed and other household article for his daughter. Despite all that, he added, his daughter was assaulted and thrown out of the house by her husband on October 2, 2015. She was told that she would not be allowed to enter the house unless she arranged Rs 5 lakhs from her parents, he said.

According to the complainant, Yadpal stayed with her parents for almost a year, during which they lodged a complaint in the women cell in Sirsa. During this time, they also called several panchayats meetings between the two parties and in one such meeting on May 31, 2016, Navdeep had agreed not to harass his wife anymore. Thereafter, Yadpal returned to her in-law’s house. Soon after, Navdeep had claimed that he was going to be promoted and Harbhej gave him Rs 2 lakh.

In February 2017, the petitioner added, his son-in-law demanded Rs 3 lakh for the treatment of his younger brother. On April 23, 2017, he heard that his son-in-law had murdered his daughter for dowry.