Preity Zinta's cousin commits suicide
posted on Dec 4, 2016 @ 3:18PM
Nitin Chauhan, cousin of Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, committed suicide in Himachal Pradesh capital Shimla owing to a matrimonial dispute, police said on Saturday. Mr. Chauhan allegedly shot himself in the head with a pistol in a vehicle early on Friday. Police said two suicide notes were recovered -- one from the car and one from Chauhan's house, wherein he blamed his in-laws for his extreme step. Mr. Chauhan’s wife Pravin Dulta (34) and his parents-in-law Prem Singh Dulta (60) and Sulochna Dulta (55) were arrested on the basis of his suicide notes, a senior police official said. Chauhan accused his in-laws of not allowing him to meet his children and of threatening to implicate him in false cases, a police official said. Child rights activist Kumar V. Jahgirdar on Saturday said Chauhan took the step a day before a court hearing in the matrimonial dispute. "It's indeed shocking that nobody came to the rescue of this father (Chauhan) as he was missing his son. His wife had filed false cases against him to keep him away from his children," said Jahgirdar.