Taunted for dark complexion, woman poisoned party food; 5 die
Saturday - June 23, 2018 8:08 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Raigad (Maharashtra) June 23 (IANS) A young woman taunted by her relatives for her dark complexion a broken marriage and lack of cooking ability poisoned the food served to nearly 120 people at a housewarming party five days ago leaving five dead Maharashtra Police said on Saturday.
Four minors and a 53-year-old man succumbed when they consumed the poisoned food late on Monday and at least 19 others are in local hospitals including five of whom are serious.
According to an official of Khalapur police station investigations led to the arrest of one of the invited relatives Pragnya alias Jyoti Survase 23 who has confessed to her crime.
"She was arrested yesterday (on Friday) and produced before a court on Saturday which has sent her to police custody for six days " the official told IANS.
As reported by IANS on June 19 the incident took place in Mahad in Raigad district where local resident Subhash Mane had organised a vaastu-shanti pooja and a housewarming dinner for nearly 120 relatives and friends.
After dinner many people complained of stomach ache giddiness and started vomiting incessantly in the early hours of Tuesday. At least four succumbed by daybreak. Another person died hours later.
Over 80 relatives and friends of Mane who consumed the dal laced with a snake-killing chemical were rushed to local private and government clinics for treatment and most of them have been discharged.
However police investigations over the past five days revealed that the chemical used to kill snakes was commonly used in Khalapur which abounds with these slithering reptiles.
Accordingly they trained their investigation on the persons responsible for making the pooja and dinner preparations or serving food and found that Survase had admitted herself to a hospital pretending to be ill after the party.
Finding this suspicious police interrogated her thoroughly after which she broke down and confessed to the gruesome crime and was subsequently arrested the official said. She is a close relative of the Mane family.
He added that her apparent targets were her second husband mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law who were habitually taunting her for her dark complexion her earlier marriage and lack of culinary skills.
But they escaped as they had already eaten that evening even as the poisoned dal was consumed by many of the other victims five of whom -- Gopinath S. Nakure 53 Kalyani Shingude 7 Vijay Shinde 11 Hrishikesh Shinde 12 and Pragati Shinde 13 -- were killed he added.
--IANS qn/him/vd
Four minors and a 53-year-old man succumbed when they consumed the poisoned food late on Monday and at least 19 others are in local hospitals including five of whom are serious.
According to an official of Khalapur police station investigations led to the arrest of one of the invited relatives Pragnya alias Jyoti Survase 23 who has confessed to her crime.
"She was arrested yesterday (on Friday) and produced before a court on Saturday which has sent her to police custody for six days " the official told IANS.
As reported by IANS on June 19 the incident took place in Mahad in Raigad district where local resident Subhash Mane had organised a vaastu-shanti pooja and a housewarming dinner for nearly 120 relatives and friends.
After dinner many people complained of stomach ache giddiness and started vomiting incessantly in the early hours of Tuesday. At least four succumbed by daybreak. Another person died hours later.
Over 80 relatives and friends of Mane who consumed the dal laced with a snake-killing chemical were rushed to local private and government clinics for treatment and most of them have been discharged.
However police investigations over the past five days revealed that the chemical used to kill snakes was commonly used in Khalapur which abounds with these slithering reptiles.
Accordingly they trained their investigation on the persons responsible for making the pooja and dinner preparations or serving food and found that Survase had admitted herself to a hospital pretending to be ill after the party.
Finding this suspicious police interrogated her thoroughly after which she broke down and confessed to the gruesome crime and was subsequently arrested the official said. She is a close relative of the Mane family.
He added that her apparent targets were her second husband mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law who were habitually taunting her for her dark complexion her earlier marriage and lack of culinary skills.
But they escaped as they had already eaten that evening even as the poisoned dal was consumed by many of the other victims five of whom -- Gopinath S. Nakure 53 Kalyani Shingude 7 Vijay Shinde 11 Hrishikesh Shinde 12 and Pragati Shinde 13 -- were killed he added.
--IANS qn/him/vd
