Don’t think my boyfriend pushed me from water tank, says BPO employee

Priyangi tells police in statement she may have slipped and got herself injured under influence of alcohol

MUMBAI: Malad BPO employee Priyangi Singh has revealed to the police that she could not recollect what transpired between her and her boyfriend Amey Darekar on the terrace of a Dahisar high-rise on November 12 last year and how she ended up injuring herself after a fall from the overhead water tank.

“Amey and I are very good friends. He cares a lot for me and I don’t think he pushed me,” Priyangi has said in her statement to the Oshiwara police. “I do not recollect how exactly I sustained the injuries. Under the influence of alcohol, I may have slipped and fallen from the overhead tank and got myself injured.”

A copy of the statement, which was recorded on Decem- ber 28, 2022, is with HT.

Based on a complaint by Pri- yangi’s father, Munish Singh, Darekar was arrested on November 14 for allegedly try- ing to kill the 25-year-old by pushing her from the overhead tank. Her father also alleged that Darekar’ mother, Radhika, had beat up his daughter.

Priyangi, however, said she could not remember Darekar or his mother beating her up.

“I woke up three days later in Kokilaben hospital where I was told that his mother Radhika had dropped me off at their residence the next morning and the police had booked him and his mother for injuring me and trying to kill me.”

According to her statement, she had studied in a Kandivalibased school along with Darekar and had also gone to college with him where they became good friends. She completed her mass media course and started working with a call centre while he joined his father’s company.

On November 12, she said, she had gone to meet Darekar after her office. They spent some time at a mall in Kandivali

NOVEMBER 18: HT reported the arrest of boyfriend for allegedly trying to kill Priyangi Singh.

East and then they met Darekar’s friend, Devesh Lad, and went to his building, La Belleza apartments, in Dahisar East. The three drank alcohol and ate the food she had carried with her and also ordered online till late in the night, the police statement said.

Though the 25-year-old did not remember whether she slipped or was pushed, her father claimed that Priyangi had a fight with Darekar.