28-year-old Navi Mumbai woman arrested for kidnapping her husband

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested by police in Navi Mumbai for allegedly kidnapping her husband with an intention to kill him. The woman’s paramour has also been arrested for the crime, reported news agency PTI.

The woman allegedly claimed that the duo planned the crime as she was fed up with her husband’s alcohol abuse, a senior officer said on Thursday.

Her 30-year-old husband, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar slums in the Rabale MIDC area of Navi Mumbai, survived the ordeal.

Initially, the police registered a case of missing person after the man was untraceable, which was later converted into a criminal case upon revelation of the facts, said the officer.

The man used to drink heavily and would regularly abuse and assault his wife, reported PTI. Fed up with the constant harassment, the accused hatched a plot with her 24-year-old paramour, who works as an autorickshaw driver, to get rid of her husband, the officer said.

“Based on a request by the woman, her paramour reached the couple’s house on May 16 under the pretext of giving him the keys. He engaged in a chit-chat with the woman’s husband for some time,” the officer said.

The woman’s paramour made her husband drink heavily and then put him in his rickshaw and drove him to Balkum in Thane city, and abandoned him there to die, said the officer.

An FIR was registered on Wednesday and the woman and her paramour were arrested and booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 140(1) (kidnapping) and 3(5) (common intention), the officer added. 

Navi Mumbai businessman kidnapped over financial dispute, rescued 

A Navi Mumbai businessman, allegedly abducted in a pre-planned conspiracy for murder stemming from a financial dispute, was rescued within 24 hours of his kidnapping, police said on Tuesday, reported news agency PTI.

In an official release, the Navi Mumbai Police said three individuals were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday in connection with the crime.

The trio was identified by the police as Rusikesh Indrabushan Ingole (25), also a businessman; Mangesh Kisan Astarkar (23), a mason, and Sagar Narendra Manvar (25), all residents of Washim district in eastern Maharashtra, reported PTI.

The victim, Pankesh Sanjay Patil (27), runs an export-import business of vegetables and operates from Akshar Business Park in Navi Mumbai. He was kidnapped over a financial dispute on the night of May 18 within limits of APMC Police Station, but rescued within 24 hours from Washim district, the release said.

(With PTI inputs)

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