A pregnant woman has been allegedly beaten and driven out of house by her husband and in-laws at Belhi Chapena VDC in Saptari district.

Chandrakala Devi Mandal of Belhi Chapena complained that her husband Binod Mandal and father-in-law Shiva Narayan Mandal assaulted and threw her out of the house on Saturday.

She is currently undergoing treatment at Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital with injuries in her head, chest and backbone.  

Chandrakala and Binod had got married four months earlier.

“My husband and in-laws started beating me two weeks after the marriage,” she said.

When Chandrakala shared her story to her family, they had recently set up a meeting with her husband and in-laws who had vowed to stop mistreating her. “But the situation got worse. They were angry at me for calling my family,” she said.

“They beat me for nearly an hour on Saturday. They tried to force me out of the house. When I refused to leave, they dragged me out.”

Chandrakala then called her brother, who took her to the hospital and helped her lodge a complaint at police .

 Both Binod and his Shiva Narayan were taken into custody on Sunday for questioning.