Mehak husband arrested,remanded in police custody

IN a significant development in the case of Mehak Garg,whose body was found hanging at her home in Panchkula,the police arrested her husband Sandeep Garg late on Monday night. He was produced in the Panchkula court on Tuesday and remanded in two-day police custody.

Sandeep,who had been on the run since the incident,was traced by Panchkula police and brought to the Sector 14 police station for interrogation on Monday. A case of dowry demand had been registered earlier against Mehak’s husband,father-in-law,mother-in-law and sister-in-law.

Mehak’s brother claimed that the police had informed them that they had found enough evidence suggesting that she was killed by her husband and in-laws.

Mehak’s body was found hanging from the fan of her bedroom on August 20 by her in-laws. Her husband who was out of town for work on the day of the incident was untraceable. She had returned from her parents’ home in Delhi a day before the incident.