Kota: Family members of a 19-year-old married Dalit woman, who allegedly hanged herself at the govt-run Sakhi One Stop Centre in Jhalawar Tuesday, agreed to a postmortem Thursday after the city police registered a case of abetment of suicide against the youth she had eloped with a few days ago.The woman, a resident of Bhalata police station area in Jhalawar district, eloped with a youth, Deepchand, from a nearby village but police, acting on a missing report by her husband, rescued her and sent her to the Sakhi One Stop Centre on Monday after both her husband and the youth she eloped with refused to accept her.The woman allegedly hanged herself with a chunni from a ceiling fan in one of the rooms at the Sakhi centre on Tuesday noon.The woman’s body was handed over to her family members after the postmortem, SHO at Jhalawar City police station, Mahaveer Prasad, said. Further legal action will be based on the report of a magisterial inquiry, he said.The kin of the deceased woman, hailing from Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, had refused a postmortem until a case of murder was lodged against cops of Bhalta police station, staff of the Sakhi centre, and the man she had eloped with. Jhalawar Amit Kumar SP had ordered a magisterial inquiry into the matter on Wednesday, assuring them of stern action based on the probe report.
