Panaji (Goa): Acting on the complaint, Women Police has booked BJP state vice president Anil Hoble, his wife and son under stringent prevention of dowry act for allegedly harassing his daughter-in-law.

In a day long exercise which began in the morning, police filed first information report against Hoble, his wife Sandhya and son Milind. They acted on the complaint filed by Milind’s mother in law Suchitra Shirodkar who is from Mumbai.

All the three are booked under section 3 and 4 of Dowry prevention act, section 498 (detaining), 323 (causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.

The complainant has alleged that Hoble and his family has been demanding huge dowry from them even before the marriage.

She has claimed that Hoble had called them yesterday at 2 am asking them to take back their daughter and because of that they had arrived in Goa at 3 pm only to find her with injury marks on her body.

The complaint alleged that Hoble, his wife and his son had severely assaulted her due to which she had injury marks.

The complainant has said that Hoble threatened to shoot them if they return back with their daughter.

Police have began questioning all the accused.

Amit Palyekar, a lawyer representing Hoble, said that it is a petty matter related to domestic issue which would be solved in a day or two.

He said there was no arrest required of the accused as there is nothing to be recovered.

Team TNV