Dowry charge against film actress

CHANDIGARH, AUG. 12. Yesteryears' `` perfect mother'' of silverscreen Ms. Nirupa Roy, has been charged in a dowry case by her daughter-in-law in Panchkula near here, Haryana police said today.

``A case has been filed by the veteran actress' daughter-in-law Ms. Una Roy with Panchkula police and a team headed by an inspector would be leaving for Mumbai soon,'' the Panchkula Sp Mr. Manoj Yadav, told PTI. The charges against the star, who most often played the role of a sobbing mother and an affectionate mother-in-law, included causing cruelty to women, criminal breach of trust and beating, he said.

To a question, he said Mumbai police had not been contacted yet as the case does not warrant such formalities and precautions. ``After all, we are not going after Dawood Ibrahim,'' Mr. Yadav said.

The Cine star's Panchkula-based daughter-in-law, who is an NRI and a worker with a foreign airlines company, had alleged in her complaint filed recently that she was subjected to severe mental and physical harassment and cruelty at the hands of Ms.Nirupa Roy and others.

Ms. Una Roy had alleged that Nirupa, unlike her screen image, was a ``very dominating mother-in-law and controls all financial affairs of the house''. Her in-laws would route black money through her (Una Roy's) foreign account and beat and threaten her with dire consequences whenever resisted, she alleged.

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