<i>Savagery by husband</i>

27 March 2009, 18:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Mymensingh

A housewife sustained serious burn injuries inflicted by her husband following altercation for dowry at Kakchar in Nandail municipality in the early hours of yesterday. Sweety, daughter of AKM Moniruzzaman of Sankipara in Mymensingh town, was married with Hemel, 22, of Padurbari village in Muktagachha upazila, last year and they started staying at Sweety's mother-in-law's rented house in Nandail municipality. Hemel used to torture Sweety for dowry and recently he pressed her for Tk two lakh, police and family sources said. Following an altercation on Thursday night, Hemel tortured Sweety and set her on fire after dousing her with kerosene. Sweety was rushed to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital as her condition deteriorated, police said. Police arrested Hemel.