‘Dowry death’: BSP MP Narendra Kashyap held along with wife, son

“Three persons have been arrested — the victim’s husband, her father-in-law who is an MP and her mother-in-law — on charges of dowry harassment and dowry death. They were produced before the magistrate and have been sent to judicial custody. Of the six accused, three have been arrested. We are ascertaining the role of the other three, following which necessary action will be taken,” said Ghaziabad SSP Dharmendra Singh.

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The other accused in case are the BSP MP’s younger son Siddharth and two daughters — Shobha and Sarita.

Earlier, the Rajya Sabha MP and wife were admitted at a local hospital after they complained of chest pain.They were examined by a team of government doctors, after which they were discharged and arrested by police.

On Wednesday morning, Himanshi was found lying in a pool of blood inside a bathroom in the Kashyaps’ residence in Ghaziabad’s Sanjay Colony.

The incident came to light after police were alerted by a local hospital that the body of a woman, who died of a gunshot wound, had been brought there.

According to police, the accused have maintained that Himanshi committed suicide by shooting herself in the head and they had not heard the sound of the gunshot.

They have also handed over a licensed revolver to police which, they claimed, Himanshi had used to shoot herself.

“The postmortem report states that the cause of death was the bullet injury on the right side of the victim’s temple. An FIR under sections of IPC pertaining to dowry harassment and dowry death has been registered at Kavi Nagar police station,” said Singh.

On Wednesday night, Himanshi’s family members filed a police complaint, saying she was being harassed by her in-laws who had demanded a Fortuner car as dowry.

The complaint by the victim’s uncle stated, “My niece used to tell us that they beat her up for dowry and they demanded a Fortuner car. My brother and I used to console her… we told her things will be fine since I was going to sell a plot of land to buy the car.”

Himanshi and Sagar were married in November 2013 and they have a one-year-old son.