Woman flies to Mumbai, murders lover in hotel, sends fake suicide messages

A woman allegedly strangled her lover to death inside a hotel room in Malad East and then attempted to mislead both his family and the police by sending fake suicide messages from the deceaseds mobile phone The accused identified as Barkat Rathod had flown from Jaipur to Mumbai on Sunday morning with the premeditated intent to commit the murderFollowing the crime she fled to Gujarat by train on the same day and later took refuge at her motherrsquos residence in JaipurBased on technical evidence including CCTV footage and call data records Dindoshi Police tracked the womanrsquos location arrested her in Jaipur and brought her back to Mumbai on TuesdayAccording to police sources after murdering the victim the woman used his mobile phone to send messages to his family falsely stating that he had died by suicide due to alleged mental harassment by his wife a ploy to divert suspicion from herselfThe deceased identified as I Mansuri 47 was a resident of Mira Road and ran an interior decoration business in the Orlem area of Malad On Sunday evening his family received a disturbing message purportedly from Mansuri claiming he had taken his own life Alarmed his son approached the Nayanagar police station and searched for his fatherThe message read ldquoI Mansuri in full consciousness declare that there is no relationship between Barkat and me This is all a conspiracy by my wife who has plotted this to defame both me and BarkatrdquoldquoMy wife is responsible for all these rumours and it is because of her that I am committing suiciderdquoUsing his fatherrsquos last known mobile location which showed Malad East the son visited nearby hotels and showed his fatherrsquos photograph At the Shalimar Hotel staff confirmed that Mansuri had checked in earlier that day with a woman wearing a burqa As per standard procedure two Aadhaar cards were submitted in Mansurirsquos name the other under the name of his motherHowever upon reviewing the hotelrsquos CCTV footage the son immediately recognised that the woman in the burqa was not his mother but his maternal aunt Barkat Rathod who lives in JaipurOn Sunday evening Mansurirsquos body was discovered seminaked on the floor of the hotel room The family promptly alerted police control and a team from Dindoshi police station reached the location After conducting a panchnama the body was sent to Siddharth hospital in Goregaon for postmortemThe autopsy report confirmed that Mansuri had been strangled to death It revealed nail marks and pressure injuries on his neck conclusively ruling out suicidePolice further revealed that Barkat was the wife of Mansurirsquos brotherinlaw The two had allegedly developed an extramarital relationship When her husband discovered the affair he left her and began living separately with their children Barkat had been living at her maternal home in Jaipur for the last two yearsldquoThe deceased was illiterate which raised immediate suspicion about the content and wording of the messages sent from his phonerdquo said a police officerSenior Inspector Ajay Afale said ldquoWe registered a case of murder based on the complaint filed by the deceasedrsquos son Under the guidance of DCP Zone XII Smita Patil and with the efforts of API Om Totawar and our detection team we traced and arrested the accused woman from Jaipur The accused is now in police custody and further investigation is underwayrdquoatOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params