Based on Saira’s complaint, the Sahar police on Thursday registered an FIR against Amol Kadam, Manish Singh, Sandeep Kesarkar and Vishal Pawar under sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.
Mumbai police have booked four persons on abetment to suicide charge after a video was found in the victim’s mobile phone that he had shot 20 days before he allegedly died by suicide in Andheri area. In the “suicide note video”, the victim blamed the four accused for forciby giving him mephedrone drugs and threatening to frame him in a POCSO case.
The Sahar police are probing the matter. In his late 30s, Sadiq Ahmed Shaikh, a tourist agent and a resident of Indira Nagar, Andheri (East), allegedly died by suicide on June 24. Before the incident the same night Shaikh’s wife Saira had found her husband in an injured state in Santoshi Mata nagar, police said.
Shaikh had an injury in his stomach indicating some sharp weapon was used to attack him.
Saira said they should go to the hospital, but he refused and told her that they would first go to the police station to file a case against Amol Kadam.
When Saira and Shaikh’s sister insisted on going to the hospital, he again refused and headed home instead. At home when his wife asked him why he was not going to the hospital, he allegedly asked her to leave the house. Saira then went to Shaikh’s sister’s paan shop and waited there, the police said.
But after some time she received information that Shaikh had died by suicide. When she rushed back home she saw Shaikh had hanged himself. Neighbors had gathered at his place. He was rushed to hospital and was declared dead.
As per the FIR, after performing last rites, on June 25 when Shaikh’s brother checked his mobile phone, he found a video that Shaikh had made on June 4. In the video Shaikh is seen telling that if he dies by suicide then four people should be held responsible for it — Amol Kadam, Manish Singh (of Supriya Travels), Sandeep Kesarkar (of Tirupati Travels) and Vishal Pawar (of Supriya Travels).
“Shaikh claimed in the video that the four allegedly tortured him to the extent that he decided to kill himself. He also claimed that the accused were trying to fix him in a POCSO case by feeding him mephedrone,” Saira stated in the FIR.
As Saira was busy with rituals, she approached the police only on July 5 and disclosed the details of the video found in her husband’s mobile phone.
Based on Saira’s complaint, the Sahar police on Thursday registered an FIR against Amol Kadam, Manish Singh, Sandeep Kesarkar and Vishal Pawar under sections 306 (abetment of suicide) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.
