Ghaziabad: The husband and in-laws of a teacher tried to set her on fire over alleged demands for a dowry of Rs 25 lakh, police said on Friday.

On Thursday, the victim Sangeeta was preparing dinner at her in-laws house in Vasundhara residential locality under Indirapuram police station of this city, when her husband Sanjeev Nagar, father-in-law Rich Pal Nagar and mother-in-law Ram Bhuli Nagar tried to burn her by pouring diesel on her, trying to make it seem a case of accidental fire.