Man held for setting daughter ablaze

Sangita is presently recuperating in JJ hospital.The police arrested Ahire on Saturday morning, on the basis of the girl8217;s statement.

Other family members said the daughter was occasionally asked by her father to go back to her husband8217;s house.

This is the second such incident in Thane District. Last week in Mumbai suburb Dombivli, a 17-year-old maid servant Rupali Patil was burnt to death by a couple of boys. The two teenagers were egged on by fear when they learnt that Rupali had revelaed some secret on an affair one of them were having.

A few years ago, an SSC girl student of Ulhasnagar, Rinku Patil, was immolatedinside the SSC examination hall by a youth, whose advances she had rejected.