MUMBAI: A 45-year-old man arrested for the rape and murder of a woman in Sakinaka on September 10 told the cops that he was angry with the victim for refusing to have sex with him, police said in a 346-page chargesheet submitted against the accused on Tuesday.
Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray had directed the police to file the chargesheet within a month and it was submitted in 18 days.
The chargesheet said the accused claimed to have known the victim closely and she had avoided meeting him for 25 days before he managed to track her down. According to the chargesheet, when the accused saw her after 25 days, he attacked and raped her in anger for refusing sex and even used a rod-like weapon in the crime. It said the crime was not pre-planned.
The victim died almost 36 hours after being brutally sexually assaulted and suffering lacerations to her private parts. She was first assaulted by the accused on the pavement and then inside a stationary tempo which was captured on CCTV.
A special investigation team was set up to probe the case. Police recorded statements of 77 witnesses in the case and attached CCTV grabs from the crime spot along with the chargesheet. They also mentioned the route taken by the accused to reach Kurla (West) from Sakinaka in Andheri (East) from where he was nabbed within 24 hours of the offence. “We have recovered the rod-like weapon that he had used in the offence. After assaulting the victim, the accused inserted the weapon which resulted in severe damage to her intestines,” said a police officer.
The incident occurred outside Rashid Compound near Chandivali Studio in Sakinaka. “Around 3.15am, a security guard outside Rashid Compound called the police control room to inform them that a woman was being beaten up in the tempo. The Sakinaka police team reached the location within 10 minutes of the call and found the injured woman bleeding in a parked tempo. Wasting no time, a police constable along with other cops got the tempo keys from the security guard and rushed the victim to the hospital,” said a Sakinaka police officer.
The security guard is the prime witness in the case as he had called the police control room.
The victim’s post-mortem was carried out at the state-run J J Hospital in Byculla. One of the experts has mentioned that she died due to complications following injuries. The autopsy was video-graphed and her viscera have been preserved for histopathological analysis. The victim had also suffered other minor injuries to her body.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
