Investigating an attempt to murder case registered last week, the Uran police have found that the complainant had consumed a poisonous substance to falsely implicate her boyfriend and his family in a criminal case.
The complainant, a 22-year-old woman from Uran, was in a relationship with a man from her village for the last nine years. As their castes were different, the man’s family didn’t approve of the relationship and did not allow him to marry her.
Husband finds out
In March, the woman’s family got her married to a man in Panvel.
“She stayed in constant touch with the boyfriend on WhatsApp, which her husband found out and abandoned her. She went back to her village and asked the boyfriend to marry her,” senior police inspector Jagdish Kulkarni from the Uran police station said.
For a month after that, their families had been quarrelling over the issue of their marriage.
On August 1, the woman was admitted to Gandhi Hospital in Panvel after she fainted at the boyfriend’s residence. From there, she was shifted to NMMC Hospital, Vashi. After being treated for three days, she was fit to give a statement to the police.
“In her statement given at the hospital to the Vashi police, she said the boyfriend and his family forced her to drink phenyl when she asked him to marry her. The Vashi police registered a case of attempt to murder and transferred the case to us,” Mr. Kulkarni said.
CCTV clue
The police checked the CCTV camera footage from outside the boyfriend’s house, which showed the woman consuming the poison of her own accord before entering the house. “The boyfriend had suspected that she might harm him or his family in some way and had installed a CCTV camera outside the house. We have seized the DVR of the camera and have sent it to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory to extract the footage as evidence,” Mr. Kulkarni said. Once the footage is extracted, the police will file a ‘B summary’ report in court, after which the court will decide on what is to be done in the case, he said.
