In a second crime stemming out of unrequited love reported from Pune in less than a month, the police have arrested an IT professional for allegedly assaulting and trying to strangle a 24-year-old woman from Dombivli to death.
Identifying the arrested IT professional as one Zuber Khwaja Patel (25), the Pune police said that Patel beat the woman – who is incidentally his ex-girl friend – after she refused to part with her mobile number to him.
The incident took place near Holkar bridge at Khadki, near Pune city, in the early hours of Friday, when both the accused and woman – who work in a financial services company in Magarpatta city, were returning home in an office car after a night shift.
The accused tried to initiate a car with victim woman, who broke up with the accused after having been in a relationship for some time, during the journey. However, the woman was in no mood to entertain her.
The accused repeated asked her mobile number so that he could keep in touch with her. However, the woman steadfastly refused to part with her mobile number.
Enraged by her refusal, the accused the driver the stop the vehicle and pushed her out of the car and began punching the victim woman in her stomach. The accused later tried to strangle the woman to death. He fled the scene soon after the incident.
Both the accused and victim live Pimple Gurav, a suburb of Pune.
Sources said that the victim woman had broken up with the accused after the latter refused to give her any commitment of marrying her.
After the victim woman lodged a complaint with the Khadki police station, the police tracked the accused – who had fled the scene after the incident – and arrested himj from his residence.
The accused man has been booked under section 307 (attempt to murder), 354 (whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The Khadki incident comes on the heels of a disturbing incident in which a a stalker allegedly stabbed a 23-year-old woman software engineer from West Bengal, who used to work for an IT firm, at Pimpri.
Antara’s body was found with multiple stab injuries at KNB square at Talwade locality of Pimpri, a satellite city of Pune, on the night of December 23.
The Pune Police have arrested one Santosh Kumar Akhilesh Prasad, also an IT company employee for master-minding the killing of Antara. Santosh had allegedly hired another person to have Antara bumped off.