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  • Married man held for abandoning toddler was fleeing after killing live-in partner

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: A man who was held from Kota in Rajasthan for abandoning his toddler son in Gandhinagar in Gujarat had allegedly murdered the infant’s mother before fleeing the state, a police official said on Sunday.

    The 10-month-old child was found abandoned late Friday night outside a cowshed in Gandhinagar’s Pethapur village, and 14 police teams soon zeroed in on his father, Sachin Dikshit, after checking CCTV footage of the vicinity and he was held on Saturday and brought here this morning, police said.

    “Dikshit was married but had a live-in relation with the victim, identified as Menhndi alias Heena Pathani, with whom he had the boy. He first strangled Heena in a Vadodara flat, then abandoned baby Shivansh near the cowshed and fled,” Abhay Chudasama, Inspector General of Police (Gandhinagar Range) told reporters.

    “The body of the toddler’s mother was found packed in a bag in the kitchen of their flat in Vadodara on Sunday. Dikshit used to live five days a week with Heena in Vadodara, where he worked, and spent the weekends in his Gandhinagar flat with wife and parents,” the IG said.

    He met Heena in 2019 when she was working in a showroom in Ahmedabad, and then after a brief separation, reunited and started living with her after he got a job in Vadodara, with Shivansh being born in 2020, he added.

    Two days ago, the couple had a fight after Dikshit said he was going to his native Uttar Pradesh to live with his parents and wife, the official said.

    “An argument broke out and he strangled Heena and then packed the body in a bag, leaving it in the kitchen, possibly as he could not muster the courage to dispose it off. He abandoned the baby near a cowshed from where he frequently bought milk,” he said.

    The IG said Dikshit later left for Uttar Pradesh via Rajasthan with his parents and wife but was nabbed by police en route at Kota after CCTV cameras caught him coming out of his car and abandoning the child near the cowshed.

    “The baby is in an orphanage and his DNA samples will be matched with the accused. Dikshit, who was arrested on charges of abandoning the baby. will be booked for murder as well. Primarily, it appears the accused’s wife did not know anything about his live-in status with Heena,” said Chudasama. 

  • Gujarat man kills wife by injecting cyanide in her drip bottle at hospital; held nearly one month later

    By PTI

    BHARUCH: A man was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his wife by injecting cyanide solution into her drip bottle while she was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Gujarat’s Ankleshwar town nearly a month ago, police said.

    The crime, which was committed by the accused as a result of marital discord, came to light on the basis of a forensic report received by the police on Friday, nearly a month after victim Urmila Vasava (34) died while undergoing treatment for chest pain, an Ankleshwar city police station official said.

    The FSL report established that Vasava died as cyanide was injected into her body, which the police said was procured by her husband Jignesh Patel from the factory in Ankleshwar, where he worked.

    As per the case details, Patel had married Vasava some seven years ago, but their love marriage was marred by discord.

    On the morning of July 8, the victim complained of chest pain and was taken to the private hospital.

    “When the victim was undergoing treatment, the accused stealthily took out a cyanide tablet and made a solution out of it.

    He then injected the solution into the drip bottle attached to her using a syringe when the doctors and other hospital staff were not present there,” the police official said.

    The victim died soon after the solution entered her body, and the police then lodged a case of accidental death, he added.

    With the report received from the forensic sciences laboratory (FSL) establishing the cause of death to be cyanide, police registered a case of murder against Patel under section 302 of the IPC on Saturday before arresting him, the official said.