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Woman drugs and robs husband
It was one honeymoon that will never cease to haunt.
- IANS
- Published: 00:00 February 23, 2007
Mumbai: It was one honeymoon that will never cease to haunt.
A young executive on his way to Goa for honeymoon was drugged and striped off his belongings by his wife, who then ran away with her paramour.
Poonam Gupta, 23, lodged a complaint on February 9 with Thane police on the outskirts of Mumbai, accusing her husband Surendra Gupta, a manager with a pharmaceutical company, of spiking her drinks and abandoning her on the way to their honeymoon to Goa.
But police investigation brought out a different story. It has now turned out that it was Poonam, a postgraduate science student of a reputed college in Navi Mumbai, who allegedly plotted the operation with another man to whom she had been allegedly married earlier.
"It is a quirky story of a woman who had accused her husband of spiking her drink, abandoning her on their way to honeymoon - but it turns out that she is the suspect," said Inspector Balkrishna Choube of the Thane railway police station. "She was finally made to confess, which landed her and two accomplices including her paramour in police custody on Wednesday."
Choube said investigation revealed that Gupta married Poonam on January 13, but was unaware that she already had relations with Abhishek Roy, a medical representative and resident of Dombivili in the western suburbs. On February 6, Poonam and Gupta boarded a train at Thane for Goa. In the train, she allegedly gave Gupta a drink laced with sedatives.
At the Margao station where he regained consciousness, Gupta made a futile search for his wife and returned home only to be arrested on the complaint of Poonam.
Gupta spent eight days behind bars and then lodged a complaint against his wife. "After giving Gupta sedatives, Poonam along with Roy, who was also on the same train, got off at Panvel with Gupta's laptop and other belongings," Choube said.
"In her complaint lodged three days later, Poonam alleged that her husband had pushed her out of the running train. But we became suspicious that she waited three days before lodging the complaint.
"It was only after we took her into custody following a complaint by Gupta that the true story came out," Choube said.
"During interrogation, we did not find any substance in her complaint. She then broke down and confessed that she, with Roy and his friend, had hatched the plan. She confessed she was already married to Roy." Police have also arrested Roy's friend Prakash Verma for being an accomplice.
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