MOGA – District and Sessions Judge Karamjit Singh Kang has sentenced a woman to five-year imprisonment after finding her guilty of forcing her husband to commit suicide.
Gurpal Singh, a resident of Masitan Marian village of Zira sub-division in Ferozepur district, had committed suicide on April 7, 2008, at his in-laws’ house in Kot-ise-Khan town of Moga.
In his complaint, deceased’s father Harbans Singh said his daughter-in-law Kirpal Kaur had been forcing Gurpal to part ways with the family and stay separately. When Gurpal did not agree, his wife moved to her father Gurdeep Singh’s house. Gurpal consumed a poisonous substance, the complaint stated.
