Out of coma, woman exposes murder plot
NEW DELHI: She answered a call from a wrong number this April and each event thereafter was a blur for 23-year-old Madhuri Rajput of Kanaur in UP. Seduced by a sweet-talking Lothario, she got hitched, ditched, bludgeoned with a brick and left for dead in a comatose state.
Until she regained senses in a New Delhi hospital and remembered the man who ruined her life for money she stole from her family before eloping with him.
“When I woke up from coma after two-and-a-half months at Batra hospital last month, police asked who attacked me. I couldn’t say. I didn’t remember anything,” she said. “It took me three weeks to recall June 13, when my husband tried to kill me.”
Delhi police arrested her husband, Ravi Singh alias Tinku, from his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur district on October 6.
Days went like a blur for Madhuri after she took that ‘misdialed’ call. Love blossomed and she spent hours speaking to the caller.
“I fled home on May 6 after stealing ~18,000 and gold from my father. Tinku took me to his village and we got married. I don’t know why he decided to kill me.”
Her husband proposed about a fortnight later that they should go to New Delhi to get their Aadhaar biometric identity cards made.
The couple landed in Delhi in the first week of June and Tinku took her to a relative’s home in Narela. They stayed there for a few days, but Madhuri “sensed something wrong” and asked him to take her home.
“That afternoon, he told me we will go sightseeing. He took me to a restaurant in Pul Prahaldpur. Then he took me to the terrace of an under-construction building. On the terrace, I remember him slapping me and hurling a brick at my head. Next thing I know is I woke up at a hospital, with no memory.”
She was found unconscious by carpenters at a construction site in south Delhi. They alerted police and she was admitted to hospital. Police registered a case of attempted murder but the probe made no progress as the woman couldn’t offer a lead.
Madhuri regained her memory bit by bit and told police on September 27 that her husband tried to kill her.
Her husband could not believe his ears when cops visited his home and disclosed that Madhuri is alive. Tinku loved another woman and seduced Madhuri only for money.
Her father, farmer Satish Chand, thanked god for giving his daughter back. The family searched for her for months before he got a call from the hospital. “Police should never let him out on bail,” said Satish.
The family took Madhuri home after she was discharged from hospital. She promised her father to never take calls from unknown numbers. “Now, I use my father’s phone. Is that man suffering in jail?” remorse in her voice revealed her grief, trauma and anger.
ACCUSED WAS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER WOMAN AND GOT MARRIED TO MADHURI ONLY FOR MONEY