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Navi Mumbai Crime: Ward boy kills girlfriend who insisted on marriage

Updated on: 01 June,2021 07:34 AM IST  |  Mumbai
Anurag Kamble |

On May 28 the accused, identified as Chandrakant Gaikar, 36, called her saying he had some medicines which would cure her. He took her to a deserted place where he gave her the overdose of injections.

Navi Mumbai Crime: Ward boy kills girlfriend who insisted on marriage

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The Panvel City police arrested a ward boy on Monday for killing his 35-year-old girlfriend by injecting her with Ketamine and other drugs. The police said she insisted on marrying him, but as she was suffering from a terminal disease, the accused didn’t want to marry her. On May 28 the accused, identified as Chandrakant Gaikar, 36, called her saying he had some medicines which would cure her. He took her to a deserted place where he gave her the overdose of injections.


On May 29 the body of a woman was found near the site of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. An ADR was registered. The police circulated her pictures in Panvel and Ulwe. The same day, a person told the police that the deceased was his sister, a resident of Nanoshi, Panvel. “He told us that his sister, a house maid, was in a relationship with a person called Chandrakant Gaikar. He also said that they used to quarrel over some issues,” said a police officer. Gaikar initially claimed innocence during interrogation but then confessed.


“The accused was in a relationship with the deceased for six months. She insisted on getting married to him, but Gaikar was not ready for it. As the woman was suffering from a terminal disease, Gaikar called her to a deserted place at the site of the Navi Mumbai Airport saying he had medicines to cure her, and injected her with four vials of Ketamine and some other drugs as well,” said Ajaykumar Landge, senior inspector of Panvel City police station.


The police said Gaikar held her hand till she died. Gaikar works in a hospital at Panvel, and police suspect he brought the injections from there. He is in police custody till June 5.

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