NAGPUR: The
young woman went about it like any other fraud committed by her, when
she duped a city man into marrying her and then made away with lakhs in valuables and cash. However, she and her accomplice must never have thought that their deeds would claim somebody's life.
Bajeria resident Kailash Parihar, 31, consumed poison three days after
his marriage on Saturday, when he realized that his newly-wed wife is a
thief and had fled with all the valuables purchased during the marriage
with her alleged brother.
The brother-sister duo had introduced
themselves as Monty and Puja Jaiswal, hailing from Gujarat. Over the
past one-and-a-half years, Monty and Puja used to have lunch at the
eatery near the railway station, where Parihar's mother worked, and had
become friendly with her.
In the first week of July, the
Jaiswal siblings told her that they had come to the city after their
parents passed away three years earlier. "The duo told the elderly woman
that they used to stay at an uncle's house but were thrown out after
the family's daughter ran away with all the valuables with her lover.
Monty said that he was looking for a suitable boy for Puja's marriage
before going back to Gujarat," said social worker Sunil Balpande, who
has been helping the Parihar family file a police complaint.
Parihar's mother was also in search of a suitable girl for him, and
proposed Kailash as a groom for Puja. After a few meetings, the marriage
was scheduled on July 18 with full zeal at the Parihar residence.
Under an impression that Puja came from a poor family, Kailash's
relatives and mother gifted many gold ornaments and other valuables to
her on the wedding. A day after the reception on July 19, Monty told
Kailash that he wanted to buy some clothes for Puja before he left for
Gujarat.
On Saturday, July 20, Kailash took Puja and Monty to a
garment shop in Sitabuldi market. After selecting a range of expensive
clothes, Kailash went to pay the bill at the cash counter on the ground
floor. When Monty didn't come down for a minutes, Puja too went to find
her brother, promising to come back within minutes.
However,
the due did not return even after an hour. Kailash tried calling Monty's
cellphone but it was not reachable. He realized that he had been duped
when the shop keeper told him that the duo had been buying clothes from
him for the past four years.
Unable to overcome the shock that
he had been cheated, Kailash consumed poison the same night. He
succumbed during treatment on July 23.
Balpande claimed that
initially police had refused to take the police complaint and sent
Kailash's mother away, as they did not believe her version of events.
Later, after Parihar's death and pressure from Balpande, police are
finally investigating the complaint to file a case.
