UDAIPUR/ AMARPUR, September 11 (TIWN): Tripura, a state with highest literacy rate, where eveyday bride burning reports comes very frequently. Such a ghastly incident took palce at Amarpur, where a housewife namely Rekha Datta Das has been killed brutally for dowry at her law’s house on Thursday.

The incident took place at Amarpur, on Thursday morning, when her husband Apu Das set fire on Rekha Dutta Das.

Hearing her scream, neighbours came to Apu Das’s house and resqued her at that moment from brutal husband.

Then after she was taken to Amarpur Hospital, immediately doctors referred her to Gomati Dist. Hospital.

Burnt body of housewife Rekha Datta Das. TIWN Pic Sept 10

Her father Nikunja Dutta lodged FIR against husband Apu Das at 2 pm with R K Pur Women Police Station.

However, police based on her death statement arrested Apu Das immediately. But at 5 pm Rekha breathed her last. According to the doctor 90 % of her body had been burnt.

It’s to be mentioned that before 3 years Nikunja Dutta’s daughter had been married to Apu Das, after fulfiling a hefty amount of dowry.

But after few day’s of marriage Apu Das started to torture upon his wife for more dowries. Poor family of Rekha’s could not fulfill his demands. As a result he kept torturing upon her continuously, and it was on Thursday morning at around 8 pm that he set fire on her.

Mrs Rekha Dutta Das while fighting her death gave her last statement to police.

However, she could not be saved at last and another dowry death added the long list of Tripura's declining social, law & order situation.