Rabale police registers murder case against a fifteen years old

Rabale police have registered a murder case against a 15-year-old MBBS aspirant for allegedly strangulating her 42-year-old mother with her karate dress belt following a quarrel between them over the minor’s preparations for the NEET medical entrance exam at their Airoli residence.

According to the FIR, the victim’s brother told the police on the afternoon of July 30, his sister’s husband, who was travelling, called and asked him to rush to their residence, saying his wife was not opening their bedroom door. The brother quickly reached their home and managed to break it open to find his sister “lying unconscious” on the bed with a cloth belt used for practising karate around her neck, which he took off. He immediately called the cops, around 3.10pm,  who in turn took the victim to Vashi NMMC Hospital where doctors declared her brought dead. Her brother showed the cops a message he had received fromthe victim’s mobile phone at 2.39pm, stating, “I tried everything, I quit.” Hence, Rabale police initially registered an accidental death case.

After the post-mortem, though, NMMC’s provisional cause of death certificate stated “asphyxial death due to strangulation with head injury”.

When police enquired with the family, the minor stated her mother constantly pressurized her to study, which led to quarrels.

On July 27, her father had scolded her for using her phone. She then went to her maternal uncle’s residence nearby. Later, her mother reached there and the two fought. The matter reached Rabale police station, but the cops resolved it.

On July 30, the girl’s father had gone to Thane to meet his sister. Around 2.10pm, her mother called the minor to the bedroom and scolded her for not studying and beat her up. The girl told cops her mother even brandished a knife. Fearing for her life, she pushed her mother who fell and hit her head against the bed. Thereafter, her mother picked up the cloth belt lying on the bed but the girl snatched it and allegedly strangled her. Then, on her mother’s phone she sent the WhatsApp message to her father, uncle and aunt. She locked the bedroom door and called her father, saying her mother was not opening its door.

Senior inspector Yogesh Gawade said, “As the girl is a minor, she has been sent to the juvenile remand home.”