Married woman, 40, booked for 25-year-old's suicide
NAGPUR:
In a case very similar to the 1994 Michael Douglas-Demi Moore Hollywood
starrer 'Disclosure', 42-year-old Veera Kalra, who is a manager at a
ready-made garment store, was booked by the Sadar police on Thursday
night for the abetting the suicide of 25-year-old youth Rahul Khandare
who was employed at the shop. In a 5-page note, Khandare, a son of a
traffic cop, had said he was taking the step for being sexually harassed
by Kalra, a married woman.
Khandare, a 2{+n}{+d} year BA student, had consumed poison
on May 24, the night before his birthday. He was found dead at the
rural tehsil office, in Civil Lines, on the morning of May 25. Police
said that Kalra is absconding and her cell phone is "not reachable" too.
Khandare's family was for the last 19 days trying to persuade the Sadar
police to accept their complaint. Khandare's mother Shobha said that
the police tried to hush-up the matter and had even concealed the
suicide note.
"I met RV Bansod (senior police inspector at
Sadar) many times and asked him to file a case against Kalra. But every
time I was sent back after being told that she is a 'high-profile'
woman," said Shobha.
On Tuesday, the Khandare family, with the support of NGO Oriental Human Rights Protection Forum,
had sat on a dharna for two hours at the Sadar police station. Along
with the NGO's city president Manish Chauhan, they had even tried to met
DCP (Zone II) MY Siram, but got no response. On Thursday, they met CP,
KK Pathak who then immediately ordered that a case be filed against
Kalra.
"I had even applied on RTI for Khandare's suicide note," added Chauhan. "Even Rahul's father was not allowed to read the note."
Recalling the evening of May 24, Shobha told TOI that Khandare had left
their home at Police Lines Takli without saying anything. "When we
tried to call him after midnight to greet him on his birthday, Rahul
could not be contacted. We tried throughout the night and were shocked
to learn the next morning that he had committed suicide," said Shobha.
Khandare's father Manohar is a naik constable and is posted at the MIDC
police station.
Khandare was appointed as a counter boy by
Kalra in January. However, after three months, he was sacked. "In his
suicide note, Rahul has mentioned how Kalra forced him to maintain a
physical relationship with her. When he stopped after a few occasions,
she turned abusive. Kalra would even call Rahul late in the night asking
him to meet her," said Shobha.
On one occasion when Kalra
called, Khandare put the call on speaker phone and asked his younger
sister to listen to the conversation. "She was using filthy language and
trying to force him to continue the relationship," she said. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Married-woman-40-booked-for-25-year-olds-suicide/articleshow/20596669.cms
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