A day after Uttarakhand police registered an FIR over state women and child development Rekha Arya’s allegations that her husband Girdhari Lal Sahu conspired to murder her, subjected her to repeated caste-based harassment and forged her signatures to remove her from various positions without her consent, the state police said on Friday that they launched a probe into the matter.
Dehradun city superintendent of police Shekhar Chand Suyal said a deputy SP-rank officer will handle the probe. “We have also received evidence along with the complaint and the required action will be taken promptly,” said The FIR, registered at the Cantonment police station in Dehradun, charges Sahu with forgery, cheating, criminal conspiracy, bigamy, cruelty by a husband, and criminal intimidation under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), as well as charges under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, police said. Police on Friday said Arya was “out of danger”.
