This story is from October 10, 2019

Gujarat: Tortured for not bearing girl, woman kills self

Adalaj police registered a case on Monday for abetment to suicide in which the victim had been tortured by her in-laws apparently for being unable to give birth to a girl child. The family justified their torture of the woman, Nikita Modh, 27,
Gujarat: Tortured for not bearing girl, woman kills self
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AHMEDABAD: Adalaj police registered a case on Monday for abetment to suicide in which the victim had been tortured by her in-laws apparently for being unable to give birth to a girl child. The family justified their torture of the woman, Nikita Modh, 27, with the frail reason that no girl had been born in their family in three generations, and she had given birth to a boy.
But hidden behind that excuse for torture was the demand for money. Nikita’s torture escalated when her parents were unable to give Rs 5 lakh demanded by her in-laws to send their younger son to Canada. Nikita ultimately drowned herself in Narmada canal last Friday after a terrible beating for not being able to pay the money, states the FIR filed by her father Ashwin Modh.
When her frantic parents kept calling her in-laws after Nikita’s last phone call on October 4, her mother in-law rejected all phone calls. Her father-in-law picked up the phone at last to tell Nikita’s parents that they will not keep her in their family even if she returns there, states the FIR. None of Nikita’s in-laws cared to search for her, after she went out of home and failed to return. Ashwin, a grocery shop owner from Deesa in Banaskantha, states in his FIR that his daughter had wed a Bapunagar-based man, Parth Modi, on December 8, 2016. After about a year Nikita gave birth to her first child, a boy.
“Her in-laws and husband used to jeer at her for giving birth to a boy and tortured her. At that time, the woman had once gone to her parents’ place and spoken of her ordeal but her parents told her to patch up with her in-laws,” the FIR states, said a police official. The FIR also mentions that the behaviour of Nikita’s husband and in-laws completely changed towards her after the birth of the boy.
“They found reasons to harass Nikita over frivolous issues. Then they began asking for Rs 5 lakh so that Parth’s younger brother Ankit could go to Canada for higher education. But as Nikita’s parents could not give the money, Nikita was badly beaten on October 4,” states the FIR.
On the evening of the same day, Nikita called up her mother Geeta and told her that it was her last call. “She also told her to take care of her son Shloka and disconnected the phone,” said Ashwin in the FIR.
Getting no positive response from her in-laws, Ashwin and Geeta reached Ahmedabad and began tracing Nikita from her cellphone location.
As her cellphone location was detected at Khoraj village near Adalaj, they went there and found her cellphone and slippers lying on the bank of the canal. They then called up cops who along with Gandhinagar Fire and Emergency Service (GFES) personnel reached the spot. After a search operation that lasted a day, fire personnel recovered Nikita’s body on October 5.
Inspector Dharmendra Chaudhari of Adalaj police said that Nikita’s husband and in-laws have been booked for abetment to suicide and domestic violence.
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