Mumbai Crime: Man kills wife over suspicion of having affair; arrested

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Tilak Nagar cops have arrested a 40-year-old man for killing his 30-year-old wife on suspicion of having affair with another man. The man, identified as Satish Jawale stabbed his wife at a tea stall where she was waiting for her mother. Along with the accused, his friend Swapnil Pawar has also been arrested by the cops.

According to a complaint filed by 60-year-old Nanda Bhingare, her daughter Dipali got married in 2012 to the accused Jawale and was living near Century Mill compound, Worli. Both have a 5-year-old daughter. But, just after one year after marriage, Dipali told her mother that her husband doesn't work and keeps beating her. After facing continuous harassment, Dipali shifted to her mother's place in April 2022 at Vidyavihar. Dipali was a beautician and used to take orders for weddings and small ceremonies.

But since she shifted, Satish used to visit their place pleading with her and promising to not beat her. After living during April and May, Dipali again went to live with her husband in June 2022. "She was tired of his daily 30 to 40 calls and visits, he used to follow her too," told mother Nanda Bhingare. "When she want to husband's place in June and nothing happened for 12 days, we thought her ordeal has ended" she added.

On June 12, Dipali again called her mother and told her she was being beaten again by her husband and had fight with her sister-in-law too. Dipali's family went to Worli police station and registered a Non-cognizable offence and brought her back home.

On June 19 at around 9.15 pm, when Dipali was waiting for her mother to arrive at a tea stall near her home, Satish arrived on a bike with a friend and attacked Dipali. "He came saw her and slashed her on neck and cheeks with a knife and ran away on a bike with his friend from the spot," told an official from Tilak Nagar Police station.

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Dipali's mother who arrived a couple of minutes after the attack found her daughter in a pool of blood, with the help of the local resident, she was rushed to Rajawadi Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival. Meanwhile, some eyewitnesses thought it was an act of chain snatching and were following the biker when bike reached Pant Nagar, Satish's bike slipped and was caught by the resident. After getting caught, he revealed his identity and surrendered himself to the police. The two accused have been booked under IPC section 302 (murder) 34 (common intention).