Arrested for attempting to kill daughter in-law
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 25 2011:
A mother-in-law was arrested by police for allegedly attempting to kill her daughter in-law.
Ningthoujam Mani Devi (43) wife of N Rajen of Thongam Mondum village in Thoubal district was arrested from her present residence at Kumbi Setpur in Bishnupur district and remanded to judicial custody after being produced in a local court here, a police source said today.
While producing Mani Devi before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bishnupur, police charged her of attempting to murder Wahengbam Yaileima (25), wife of her son Solomon on Wednesday (March 23) by suffocation, pressing her face with a pillow.
According to the victim, she was saved by Moirangthem Gopen, a neighbour, who rushed to the house by breaking the door.
Subsequently, some villagers also rushed to the house, she added.
Yaileima had been treated cruelly by her mother in-law since her marriage with Solomon in October 2009 .
At her first delivery in a private hospital the mother-in-law or any other family members attended her, according to the FIR lodged with the Kumbi Police Station of Bishnupur district.