Sexcapade railway man booked for culpable homicide

MUMBAI: Following a court order, the Bhoiwada police on Saturday slapped the non-bailable charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on Central Railway employee Surendra Chavan (54) following the death of a sex worker who had a fatal fall while trying to escape from his flat by climbing down a rope, fashioned out of sarees and bed sheets, early on Friday.Chavan has been remanded in police custody till April 24.
Initially Chavan was booked on the charge of causing death due to negligence under section 304 (A) of the IPC but later, it was changed to a non-bailable offence. (. On Saturday the police charged it to 304 (II) (culpable homicides not amounting to murder). Chavan is in custody till April 24 for further interrogation. He had been employed as senior section engineer at the Parel Loco Shed.
police are searching for the deceased's whereabouts.
During the probe, the police learnt that Chavan, a senior section engineer at the Parel Loco Shed, brought the sex worker to his third-floor flat in the CR Staff Colony at Parel on Thursday evening, promising her Rs 500 and a beer bottle.
In his FIR statement, Chavan said on Thursday, after returning from work, he picked up the woman, identified as Julie, from outside a theatre in Dadar. from work around 4pm, following which he took a bath and performed puja before leaving to bring the woman identified as Julie.
"Chavan said he brought the woman as his wife had left for her parent's house in Kurla and he thought she would return only the next day," said ACP (Bhoiwada) R B Poman.
According to the Chavan's statement in the FIR, he returned from work around 4pm on Thursday. He took bath and performed puja before leaving to bring the CSW. "Chavan said he brought the woman thinking that his wife, who left on Thursday morning to her parent's Kurla home, will return home the next day," said assistant commissioner of police (Bhoiwada division) R B Poman.
Chavan, picked Julie up from outside a theatre in Dadar.
"After fixing the pay (Rs 500) and her demand (beer bottle), Chavan left Julie in a taxi and went to a wine shop. He deliberately returned home after sunset so that no one could spot him with the women," said Poman. But a neighbour did see him with her and reportedly tipped his wife off. Around 10.15pm, Chavan's wife returned. "When Chavan did not respond, she tried to open the door with a key. But with Chavan bolting the door from inside, she failed to open it. She waited for an hour, then put a lock on the door from outside and returned to her parents' home," said the police.
Fearing that his wife would confront him the next day, Chavan decided to climb down from his balcony. "Both Chavan and Julie were drunk by then. They tied up sarees and bed sheets together, with the help of which, Chavan came down to the ground. On running up to his flat, he found that his wife had put a lock on the door and he did not have a key to it. Around 2.15am on Friday, he called on Julie's mobile, asking her to climb down like he had done earlier. As she climbed down, Julie lost her grip midway and fell to ground, suffering multiple fractures that led to her death," cops said.
Chavan then ordered a guard, Jaywant Surve (65), to get the keys of the garden gate from another resident, Rajendra Godekar. "Chavan and Surve carried Julie's body outside and left it by the road. But the police nabbed him with the help of his wallet found by the body," said the police. Godekar did not respond to TOI's calls on Saturday. "We have to check if Godekar was involved before we take any action," said Bhoiwada senior inspector Vikram Patil.