BMC contractor murder: Killer introduced wife to victim

BMC contractor had got killer's family to city from Parbhani and offered him a job; he fell in love with the killer's wife and married her his fifth wife

BMC contractor murder: Killer introduced wife to victim

BMC contractor had got killer's family to city from Parbhani and offered him a job; he fell in love with the killer's wife and married her his fifth wife

"Had I accompanied my husband for morning tea as I normally do, the assailant would have killed me too," said Chandrakala Dokhe (32), the fifth wife of BMC labour contractor Babusaheb (35), whose throat was slit on Wednesday, early morning, near Bandra court.

Chandrakala strongly suspects her ex-husband Bansi Baburao Jadhav (40), who lives in Parbhani, as he had threatened Dokhe, just two days before the incident, over the phone. "Tu majha saunsar udvast kela, me tula sodnar nahin (you have ruined my life and I won't leave you)," Jadhav had said.u00a0

Jadhav was plotting revenge since Chandrakala married Dokhe four years ago. She has three grown up children from her first marriage and claims that it was Dokhe, who got her family to Mumbai from Parbhani, and offered them a job at his work site.

However Jadhav, an alcoholic, was not interested in working and returned to Parbhani with their children in two weeks of their arrival. It was during this period that Chandrakala fell in love with Dokhe, who was trying to overcome the loss of his fourth wife.

"He will kill me, I am scared," said Chandrakala. According to Akash, her stepson, his father was earning around Rs 8,000 per week from the BMC and had 15 labourers working under him.

What happened that morning

Autopsy says
Dr Rajesh Dhere, associate professor and head of postmortem centre Sion Hospital conducted the autopsy on Dokhe, for nearly two hours. He had around 12 wounds all over the body which include a 15 cm wide slit on the throat, which was four cm deep, stab wounds on his chest, a wound above his left elbow and wounds on his leg and ear.