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Officer husband held for abetting captain's suicide
Capt Chaitanya Bhatwedkar, who was arrested late Tuesday night and appeared in court on Wednesday, has been given six days police remand.
JAMMU: Nine months after Captain Megha Razdan was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her quarters, police has arrested her husband, also a captain posted near Jammu, on charges of pushing the 26-year-old engineer to commit suicide by refusing to break off with a previous lover.
Capt Chaitanya Bhatwedkar, who was arrested late Tuesday night and appeared in court on Wednesday, has been given six days police remand.
Megha Razdan of the 113 Engineers Regiment had been found hanging in the bedroom of the military-allotted quarters on July 1, 2007.
Megha's husband has been charged under Sections 306 and 389 of the Ranbir Penal Code for abetting the suicide and inflicting cruelty. The IPC does not apply in Jammu & Kashmir, which has its own penal code under Article 370 of the Constitution.
Jammu SSP Parminder Singh on Wednesday said that Bhatwedkar was having an affair with another woman in Pune.
The police, however, refused to disclose the name of the Pune-based woman, claiming that investigations reveal that she probably did not know about the incident.
On July 1, 2007, the couple ��� both posted in the same engineers unit near Jammu ��� had quarrelled again, the police said, adding that Megha had threatened to commit suicide. The SSP said her husband had tied the knot of a bed sheet for his wife and left the quarter along with his orderly for the nearby market. They returned a little later to find Megha hanging.
The police said the crime scene appeared disturbed when it first arrived at the spot. Even while the police was investigating, the army had initiated its own probe against Bhatwedkar who allegedly staged the drama of a kidnapping and managed a cut on his tongue to sidetrack the investigation, police officers said. The police then conducted brain-mapping and narco-analysis on the officer in Bangalore.
Capt Chaitanya Bhatwedkar, who was arrested late Tuesday night and appeared in court on Wednesday, has been given six days police remand.
Megha's husband has been charged under Sections 306 and 389 of the Ranbir Penal Code for abetting the suicide and inflicting cruelty. The IPC does not apply in Jammu & Kashmir, which has its own penal code under Article 370 of the Constitution.
Jammu SSP Parminder Singh on Wednesday said that Bhatwedkar was having an affair with another woman in Pune.
He said the captain knew the woman before his marriage with Megha, who had asked her husband to end his relationship. The SSP said the couple had fought over the issue several times. The police said at times, Bhatwedkar had been making over a hundred calls and SMSes a day to the woman in Pune.
The police, however, refused to disclose the name of the Pune-based woman, claiming that investigations reveal that she probably did not know about the incident.
On July 1, 2007, the couple ��� both posted in the same engineers unit near Jammu ��� had quarrelled again, the police said, adding that Megha had threatened to commit suicide. The SSP said her husband had tied the knot of a bed sheet for his wife and left the quarter along with his orderly for the nearby market. They returned a little later to find Megha hanging.
The police said the crime scene appeared disturbed when it first arrived at the spot. Even while the police was investigating, the army had initiated its own probe against Bhatwedkar who allegedly staged the drama of a kidnapping and managed a cut on his tongue to sidetrack the investigation, police officers said. The police then conducted brain-mapping and narco-analysis on the officer in Bangalore.
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