By IANS
Balasore (Orissa) : A tax official in Orissa was arrested Thursday on a complaint lodged by his wife for demanding Rs.100,000 from her as dowry, police said.
Deepak Beshra, posted as an additional commercial tax officer at Jharsuguda town, 374 km from capital Bhubaneswar, denied the charges levelled against him by his wife Tulasi Devi.
He was remanded in judicial custody after his bail application was rejected in a local court Thursday.
Tulasi Devi currently stays in her parents' house at Balasore town, some 200 km from Bhubaneswar.
According to preliminary investigation, the couple had not been on good terms since their marriage in January this year, said Ranjit Sahu, officer in-charge of a local police station.