11 January,2024 08:55 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Navi Mumbai police has booked the husband, mother-in-law and the husband's friend for abetment of suicide after a 28-year-old married woman allegedly ended her life in Nerul area last week.
An official of Vashi police station said that Bhavika Sutar allegedly hanged herself at her house in Shiravane village on Thursday, January 5. Her father lodged a complaint claiming that she faced relentless mental and physical torture from her in-laws which drove her to suicide.
Navi Mumbai police in Vashi on Wednesday registered a First Information Report against her husband Pritam Sutar (35), mother-in-law Asha Sutar (55) and Ashutosh Patil (32), Pritam's friend, under sections 498 (a) (husband or relative of husband subjecting a woman to cruelty) and 306 (suicide abetment) of the Indian Penal Code, the official said. No arrest had been made in the case, he added.
Meanwhile, Navi Mumbai police registered a case against the manager of a bank and two other persons for allegedly cheating a 37-year-old woman by forging documents of a shop sold to her in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai to take a loan, police said on Thursday.
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In 2012, two of the accused sold the shop located in Kamothe area of Navi Mumbai to the woman, who is a resident of Antop Hill in neighbouring Mumbai.
In 2016, the accused allegedly submitted forged documents pertaining to the shop to a bank, securing a loan of Rs 16 lakh in the name of another person, as per the First Information Report (FIR) registered by the police in Kharghar. The documents were submitted without the victim's knowledge and signature and without proper verification of the property, the First Information Report said.
The victim alleged that the accused failed to repay the loan amount, following which the bank seized the shop, an official from Kharghar police station said.
Based on her complaint, the police on Tuesday registered the FIR against the three accused under various Indian Penal Code sections for cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy. (With inputs from PTI)
