Thane Woman Assault Case: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been formed under DCP Zone 5 Amar Singh Jadhav in the case in which Ashwajit Anil Gaikwad, a son of a senior bureaucrat in Maharashtra, and others have been named as accused. According to CP Thane, Jai Jeet Singh, the statements of witnesses are being recorded and forensic evidence is also being collected. He assured that a thorough investigation would be done into the matter.
"For a thorough investigation, an SIT has been formed under DCP Zone 5 Amar Singh Jadhav in the case in which Ashwajit Anil Gaikwad and others have been named as accused. All aspects are being considered. Statements of witnesses are being recorded and forensic evidence is being collected," Singh said, as quoted by news agency ANI.
A 26-year-old woman suffered major injuries after her boyfriend, and his accomplices allegedly attempted to run her over with his car close to a hotel in Thane city. According to police, the incident occurred on December 11 near a hotel on Ghodbunder Road.
Soon after the matter came to the fore, the police registered a case against accused Gaikwad and two others under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 279 (rash driving), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and others at the Kasarvadavali police station.
Meanwhile, the victim Priya Singh narrated the incident and claimed that Gaikwad kept her in the dark about the fact that he was already married when they entered into a relationship.
"I had a four-and-a-half-year relationship with my boyfriend. We were completely in love with each other. I did not know earlier that he was married. Later, when I came to know he told me that they (his wife & him) were not together anymore, they had separated. He said that he wanted to marry me. I was staying with him for a long time," Priya Singh, told news agency ANI.
"When I went to meet him that night, he was with his wife. I was in shock when I went to talk to him, he got aggressive. We had a fight. Three bones in my right leg are broken, it has been operated on. From my left shoulder to my hips I've deep injuries...I cannot move my body. Four days ago I went to file an FIR, the day all this happened. But no action was taken. Today, when I posted on the social media, the police have supported me..." she added.
(With ANI Inputs)