‘Abuse, affairs, financial disputes’: Doctor wife found dead, abetment case against eye surgeon

Jalandhar: A 37-year-old govt doctor was found dead in her home on Wednesday, following which a police case of abetment to suicide was registered against her husband, an eye-surgeon. Parents of the deceased doctor accused her husband of having extramarital affairs, meting out physical violence on his wife, and taking a loan of Rs 2.5 crore in her name without informing her.The deceased was working for a civil hospital, while her husband owned a hospital on Kapurthala Road, Jalandhar. She had separated from him last year, and had been demanding that he give her a mutual divorce, pay her for a loan she had taken and repaid for him to start the hospital, and remove her name from the Rs 2.5-crore loan, the mother of the deceased doctor alleged.According to a complaint lodged by her father, a resident of Jalalabad in Fazilka district, the deceased doctor took a loan of Rs 45 lakh to help her husband set up his hospital soon after their marriage in 2018. "She repaid the instalments of the loan from her salary. In 2023, she came to know that he was having extramarital affairs. When she investigated, she found a video of her husband with another woman," allegations in the FIR stated. The complainant also handed over a video clip to the police.The father alleged that they tried to settle things by advising her husband to mend his ways, but he started physically abusing her instead. "In 2025, he also tried to kill my daughter by strangling her, about which she informed the police helpline. After this incident, she started living separately in a rented house. She wanted to purchase a new house for her in Jalandhar. When she went to the bank and checked her CIBIL score, she discovered that a loan of Rs 2.5 crore had allegedly been taken in her name by her husband without her consent. She called up her husband and his father, asking them to remove her name from the loan, but her husband started threatening her. She had been stressed ever since, due to which she committed suicide," the father alleged.The FIR has been registered at Division VI police station under Section 108 of BNS (abetment of suicide).The doctor's mother said her daughter would often call her up, informing that though her husband beat her up, he later apologised and she would still try to settle thing with him. "When she realised last year that she could not live with him, she had only two demands: to remove her name from the loan of Rs 2.5 crore and to pay back Rs 70 lakh for the loan of Rs 45 lakh she took for him after their marriage, as she had paid back the entire amount. She told him she did not want any share in any property and he should just do these two things and they should file for mutual divorce, but he did not listen to her and caused even more mental harassment," the mother said.