Mumbai: Going on a date turned out to be a horrifying experience for a woman who was assaulted by her boyfriend because she refused to get intimate with him.
Akash Mukherjee and Lubna Sukte, both 28, were on a date at Bandra's Bandstand area in Mumbai when the former tried killing his girlfriend after she refused to have sexual intimacy with him. Mukherjee was later arrested on Wednesday night after onlookers caught him and brought the matter to police's attention. He has been remanded by a metropolitan magistrate to police custody for two days.
Chilling visual surfaces on social media
A video allegedly showing Sukte in a pool of blood surfaced on Twitter. The chilling footage captured the girlfriend brutally assaulted and injured at the rocks. The tweet reported her to be in a critical condition.
In relationship for more than a year
According to the statement given by the 28-year-old woman to the Bandra police on Thursday, she was in a relationship with Mukherji for the past one year. While she lived in Bhiwandi, her friend lived in Kalyan. Both were employed. However, on Wednesday, they decided to go for an outing and accordingly met at Kalyan station at 11.30 a.m. on Wednesday. They then boarded a train to to CST and from there went to the Gateway of India. In the evening around 5.00 p.m. they went to Bandra station by a harbour line train and from there went to Bandstand, Bandra, in an autorickshaw.
Boyfriend wanted to get intimate, she refused
They were sitting on the rocks and chatting till it became very dark. Mukherji revealed that he had converted to Islam and hence there should be no problem in getting married. The woman said it was very late and she wanted to return home. Mukherji then allegedly tried to get intimate with her in the isolated spot facing the sea, but she resisted. This angered Mukherji and he suddenly covered her mouth and started strangulating her with bare hands, according to the statement given to the police.
When she resisted, he banged her head on a rock and pushed her face in a puddle of dirty sea water. The profusely bleeding woman raised an alarm which alerted passersby, who in turn called the police. The police rushed her to Bhabha muncipal hospital. Mukherji tried to flee from the spot, but the police caught and arrested him. The police said the woman had suffered serious injuries on her head and nose, but her condition was ``stable." According to senior inspector Rajesh Dhevre, a case under IPC 307 (attempt to murder) has been registered against Mukherji and further investigations are being conducted.
The rocks of Bandra Bandstand are a place favourite with young couples. There is virtually no light there which makes the place unsafe.
