Staff Report
Mumbai: 42-year-old Guddu Chhotelal Rajak, a labourer, inspired by CID a TV show killed his daughter to settle his score with his wife, who refused to live with him due to domestic violence.
The Hindustan Times quoted Kalamna police station in-charge, Vinod Patil as saying: “Guddu used to live with his second wife 38-year-old Kaushalya, and three children including Mahi (16), Ziya (12) and Gaurav (10) in the east Nagpur locality. He remarried a few years ago after his first wife died by suicide in 2016.”
The accused wanted to teach a lesson to his wife and asked his daughter he will stage only drama and will save her after taking pictures with a robe around her neck. The victim agreed and became part of the drama but the poor soul didn’t get the actual motive of her father.
The accused was inspired by the CID crime show and he replicated an episode of this crime show. His wife left home on October 10 and Mahi was found hanging in her room on November 6.
The local police have recovered five suicide notes blaming her stepmother, maternal uncle, aunt, and grandfather for “forcing her to marry”. The suicide notes also accused her maternal uncle, Santosh Piparde, of molestation.
“Police, however, grew suspicious and seized Guddu’s phone for investigation. They found a photo of Mahi alive, with a noose around her neck. Upon further interrogation, he confessed to killing Mahi,” Patil said.
“The accused hatched the conspiracy after seeing an episode of CID to teach a lesson to his relatives and his second wife after she refused to come back, and shared his plan with his daughters. He asked Mahi to write suicide notes with a concocted narrative,” he added.
Nagpur additional commissioner of police Naveen Reddy on November 6 told The Hindustan Times, Guddu woke up his daughters at 3 am and told them he needed Mahi’s photograph to submit it to the police.
“He then allegedly tied a rope to the ceiling raft and asked his daughter to stand on a table. Ziya took a photograph on his mobile phone as Mahi stood with the noose around her neck,” he said.
“Guddu then kicked the table. As Mahi hung from the ceiling raft, she cried for help but Guddu did not save her,” he added.
Police found Mahi’s photograph of enacting the suicide bid on the accused’s mobile phone. “He had told his daughter to act, claiming he wanted to teach a lesson to their relatives,” Patil said.
