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When a 31-year-old pistillate immolated herself astatine location successful Surat implicit a marital dispute, her hubby recorded a video of the incidental alternatively of redeeming her, starring constabulary to record a lawsuit and apprehension him connected Friday (January 16, 2026).
The 33-year-old man, Ranjit Saha, was arrested connected cruelty and abetment of termination charges for signaling his wife's self-immolation alternatively of redeeming her, constabulary said.
The woman, Pratimadevi, aboriginal died.
The Icchapor constabulary connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) registered a lawsuit against Mr. Saha nether sections 85 (cruelty by husband/relative) and 108 (abetment of suicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Inspector A.C. Gohil told PTI.
The pistillate acceptable herself connected occurrence connected January 4, according to her connection recorded by constabulary connected January 11. However, the woman's member suspected the engagement of her hubby successful her decease and alerted police, Mr. Gohil said.
"After starting investigation, we recovered a clip successful his mobile telephone wherever helium was signaling his wife's self-immolation alternatively of redeeming her," said the Inspector.
The self-immolation was triggered by a combat betwixt the couple, primitively hailing from Bihar, due to the fact that of a insignificant quality involving their children. During the fight, Mr. Saha allegedly told his woman to usage immoderate lipid and pain herself, the constabulary said.
The woman poured diesel kept successful location connected herself and self-immolated. To beryllium his innocence and debar blasted for his wife's death, Mr. Saha recorded the full occurrence connected his phone, they said.
Diesel was kept successful the location due to the fact that Mr. Saha works astatine a store and helium had brought the lipid to premix it with phenyl for level cleaning, constabulary said.
Pratimadevi was shifted to a infirmary connected January 4, but succumbed to her pain injuries connected January 11.
Mr. Saha and Pratimadevi, natives of Bihar, eloped from their homes and aboriginal solemnised their emotion matrimony done a court-registered wedding successful 2013. They settled successful Surat with their 2 sons and a girl 3 years ago, Mr. Gohil said.
