Pune, November 3: A 34-year-old woman was found hanging on Monday in a flat in the Mukund Nagar area of Pune, and her husband has been arrested after her family alleged persistent harassment over demands for gold, PTI reported.

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The woman, Payal Zambre Patil, was a former IT professional who had resigned from her job. She was married to Akshay Zambre Patil, and the couple has a young daughter. According to the reports, she left her matrimonial home on Sunday after a disagreement with her mother-in-law, and when her family searched for her the following day, she was found hanging in a room of a flat near the home. Police said no suicide note was found at the scene.

Abetment case registered; husband in custody, parents being traced

Senior Inspector Yashwant Nikam of Swargate police station told PTI that a case of alleged abetment of suicide has been registered against the husband, his mother and his father. Akshay Zambre Patil has been taken into custody, and police teams are searching for the other two accused, the reports said.

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Local reporting said police received a call at around 11 am on Monday and found her body at the home behind Zhambre Palace, a banquet venue owned by her father-in-law, and that the body was sent for a post-mortem examination. After her death, relatives gathered at the venue and allegedly vandalised it, according to the local report.

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Family alleges harassment over gold; murder allegation is theirs, not a police finding

Payal's relatives allege she was subjected to mental and physical harassment since her marriage, including demands for ten tolas of gold every Diwali, which they say they could not meet as a farming family. The family's police complaint also alleged harassment linked to demands for money, gold and other valuables, the Indian Express reported. Her family maintains she was killed — an allegation, not a police conclusion. The cited reports carry no response from the accused or their representatives.

Police are investigating both the death and the harassment allegations. An arrest and the registration of a case do not establish guilt; what happens next depends on the post-mortem findings, the statements recorded by Swargate police, and whether the two other accused are traced and questioned.