Mumbai: The Versova police have arrested a man for allegedly stabbing his wife to death near her workplace on Monday morning. The accused allegedly killed his wife as she had left him and refused to come back due to his alcoholism and abusive behaviour. He was picked up from Pune ten hours after the murder.
According to the police, the victim, Neha Balsingh, worked as an attendant aboard a private bus contracted to pick up and drop students of a school in western Mumbai. The police said that Neha reached the school to report for duty around 6:30 a.m. on Monday. The bus driver had stepped away to have tea at the time and when he returned, he could not see Neha anywhere. He alerted his employers, and started looking for her. He found her a short while later lying by the side of the road with multiple stab injuries and a slit in her throat.
The driver informed the police control room and the information was relayed to the Versova police. The police tried to contact her husband, Sachin, but found that his phone was switched off, raising suspicion. The police found that Neha had left Sachin a week ago as he used to assault her after drinking liquor. She had since been staying with her parents in Lower Parel.
“Neha’s parents told us that she had a fight with Sachin on Sunday night, and that they suspected Sachin of killing her. We traced his cellular locations to Pune, and sent a team there,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Paramjit Singh Dahiya, Zone IX.
Officers who arrested Sachin from Chakan in Pune said he had confessed that killed Neha because he was angry that she was not willing to come back to him.
The police team is currently on its way to Mumbai with Sachin, who has been charged with murder, in its custody.
