Jharkhand government has axed SDO of Hazaribagh Ashok Kumar on the charges abatement to suicide committed by his wife Anita Devi. 

Ashok Kumar has been absconding since his wife Anita Devi committed suicide.Now, as per the notification issued by the personnel department, he was directed to report to it. 

A case was filed against SDO of Hazaribag Sadar Ashok Kumar after his wife Anita Devi, who allegedly set herself on fire, succumbed to burn injuries on Saturday. 

Anita Devi had allegedly set herself on fire at their official residence in Hazaribag’s Lohsinghna on Thursday, they said. She was rushed to the burn unit of the Bokaro General Hospital before she was shifted to the private hospital in Ranchi, where she breathed her last on Friday. 

Hazaribagh Superintendent of Police Arvind Kumar Singh said a case was registered against the SDO, Sanjay Kumar, his father Duryodhan Sahu, younger brother Shivnandan and his sister-in-law Rinku Devi on the basis of the statement of Anita Devi’s brother Rajkumar Gupta. 

In his statement, Gupta claimed that since Kumar was promoted, there was a lot of change in his behaviour towards his wife. The differences between Kumar and his wife further deteriorated after she learned that he was having an extramarital affair, he claimed.