India: Man suicides after argument with wife, getting beat up by in-law and threatened with false 498A complaint

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'Police said Rakesh Pilania, who was a manager at the MG Road branch of RBS Bank, took the extreme step on Monday night, following a tiff with his wife Shobhika.

Following a complaint by Rakesh's father, Anand Prakash Pilania, on Tuesday, police have booked his wife, brother-in-law Shubham and parents-in-law on the charge of abetment to suicide.
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On Monday evening, an argument broke out between the bank manager and his wife over her intention to continue with her job, despite his objection, police said. Shobhika called her brother Shubham, who allegedly came and beat up Rakesh. Shubham then took his sister away to their parents' place. When Rakesh and his mother went to his parents-in-laws' place to negotiate with them, Shobika refused to return to her husband's place.

"Around 8pm, after returning to his flat with his mother, he locked the flat and jumped off the bedroom window. Around 11pm, we got the information. He was rushed to a private hospital where he was declared brought dead," the investigating officer said.
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In the complaint, Rakesh's father said his wife had been harassing from the time they got married on December 03, 2014, and she and her family members had threatened to file a fake dowry case agaisnt him. "On Monday morning, he had called his mother and me and told us everything. His brother-in-law came and fought with him too. Finally my son jumped to his death," said Ananad Prakash Pilania, who is a manager in Syndicate Bank in Bhiwani.'

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