On Sunday, 22nd December, the Maharashtra Police registered a complaint against two persons identified as Jahir Nazir Sheikh and Naziya Nazir Sheikh for brutally assaulting a woman to death in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district.
As per the initial information obtained by OpIndia, the woman who died was the wife of Jahir and the daughter-in-law of Naziya, and has been identified as Simran. The sections imposed against the accused persons include 80 (dowry death), 85 (cruelty against women by a husband or his relative), and 3(5) (joint criminal liability by multiple people acting together to commit a crime) of the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita, 2023.
The FIR copy obtained by OpIndia reveals that the accused persons constantly assaulted the deceased woman and forced her family, especially her mother for money. The duo harassed the woman and also forced her to perform obscene activities for money. Notably, the harassment has been taking place since their marriage in June this year, however, the incident came to the fore only after the woman video-called her mother seeking help.

The woman, hailing from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, who was already a mother to a 4-year-old boy got married the accused Jahir on 22nd June 2024. After around a month, she started complaining about the harassment that she had to face at the hands of Jahir.
The complaint that has been filed by the mother of the deceased says that Simran used to often visit her in Gwalior and during her trips, she used to complain about Jahir. The deceased woman would accuse Jahir of physical assault and harassment for demands of dowry.
“I used to send him money online so that my daughter could remain safe. He used to also assault my grandson who had been staying with Sheikhs after my daughter’s marriage to Jahir. Simran had also once told me that Jahir used to force her to perform derogatory activities for money,” the mother of the deceased woman stated in the complaint.
Recently, on the 19th of December, the deceased made a video call to her mother crying for help. She said that she was two months pregnant and that her husband accused Jahir and his mother Naziya were physically assaulting her. She stated that Jahir had forced her to eat some substance after which her health had deteriorated.
“She was crying for help. I could see on the call that Naziya had held my daughter in a position and Jahir was kicking on her stomach. After she told me that she was forced to eat something, I immediately sent some money for treatment. I pleaded for her rescue but the duo continued to assault her. She too was screaming for help,” the mother of the deceased said in the complaint.

The complainant further added that she called multiple times to find out about her daughter’s health after the initial call got disconnected. Later, she was informed that her daughter had been taken to the hospital where she was declared dead by the doctors.
The complainant has demanded strict punishment against the accused and said that the dead body of the girl was lying at the hospital for around 2 days. On the other hand, local reports suggest that the accused Jahir assaulted the deceased suspecting that the child she was carrying was not his. Jahir accused the woman of bad character and assaulted her.
The woman was a divorcee and was a mother to a 4-year-old. She was earlier married to a person identified as Baba Sayyed and after the divorce met Jahir who made her fall in ‘love’ with him. However, after she was two months pregnant, he began accusing her of bad character indicating that the child she was carrying was not his.
A police complaint in the given case has been filed and the duo have been booked under relevant sections of the law. No information on the arrest has been obtained yet.
Further probe is underway.