Mumbai: It was one honeymoon that will never cease to haunt. The plans of a young executive proved bizarre on his way to Goa after his newly-married wife drugged him, stole his belongings and then ran away with her paramour.
Poonam Gupta, 23, lodged a complaint February 9 with Thane police on the outskirts of Mumbai, accusing her husband Surendra Gupta, a manager with a pharmaceutical company, of spiking her drinks and abandoning her on the way to their honeymoon to Goa.
But a rather quirky story was revealed in course of police investigations. It has now turned out that it was Poonam, a postgraduate science student of a reputed college in Navi Mumbai, was the one who plotted the whole thing with another man whom she had been allegedly married to earlier.
"It is a quirky story of a woman who had accused her husband of spiking her drink, abandoning her on their way to honeymoon, turns out that she is the guilty," said Inspector Balkrishna Choube of the Thane railway police station.
"She was finally made to make her confession, which landed her and two accomplices including her paramour in police custody on Wednesday."
Choube said investigation revealed that Gupta married Poonam January 13, but was unaware that she already had relation with with Abhishek Roy, a medical representative and resident of Dombivili in the western suburbs.
On February 6, Poonam and Gupta boarded a train at Thane for Goa. In the train, she allegedly gave Gupta a drink laced with sedatives.
At the Margao station where he regained consciousness, Gupta made a futile search for his wife and returned home only to be arrested on the complaint of Poonam.
Gupta spend eight days behind the bars and then lodged a complaint against his wife. "After giving Gupta sedatives, Poonam along with Abhishek, who was also on the same train, got off at Panvel with Gupta's laptop and other belongings," Choube said.
"In her complaint lodged three days later, Poonam alleged that her husband had pushed her out of the running train. But we became suspicious that she waited three days before lodging the complaint," the police said.
"It was only after we took her into custody following a complaint by Gupta that the true story came out," Choube said. "During interrogation, we did not find any substance in her complaint. She then broke down and confessed that she, with Roy and his friend, had hatched the plan," he added.
"She confessed that she was already married to Roy and that they were staying at the latter's rented flat in Dombivili. A search carried out at the flat led to the seizure of a laptop and gold ornaments, which they had allegedly robbed from Gupta after he became unconscious," Choube said.
Police have also arrested Roy's friend Prakash Verma for taking part in the conspiracy. The three have been remanded to police custody till Febraury 24, police said.
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