Call records show eyewitness in Darshana Tongare murder case got through to 100, said nothing
Call records show eyewitness in Darshana Tongare murder case got through to 100, said nothing
In a shocking new revelation in the IBM techie Darshana Tongare murder case, police control room officials said they had received a call on the day of the murder from an eyewitness -- the caller, however, cut the line without speaking to the constable who answered the phone.
Darshana Tongare
Niranjan Badde (24) was the first to reach the crime spot and had chased Tongare's assailant. Badde had then said that despite repeated attempts to reach the police control room, he had been unable to get through.
The issue of the police control room phone number 100 often being inaccessible had resulted in a big uproar, forcing control room officials to check the call details on August 30.
"An eyewitness who wants to share some information keeps on trying till he gets through to the police. But in the case of Badde, he only called once, and he did get through to the constable," said a senior officer attached to control room. "But he hung up without saying anything and we have the recorded proof of this fact."
Investigating officer Police Inspector Nandkumar Bhosale-Patil said, "Sometimes the control room number is busy. In Badde's case, he must have only tried once to contact the control room."
Other control room officials said more than 70 per cent of the calls received by them were either fake or blank calls, but witnesses who want to share information never give up and continue to call till they get the information across.
No breakthrough
Bhosale-Patil said, "I visited the family on Sunday, but no concrete information has come up after interacting with them."
The 21-year-old Tongare was attacked with a sharp weapon near Shinde petrol pump on her way back home from her office in Yerawada on August 30. The incident took place after her friend Abhijeet Taru (22) had dropped her at her residence in Suvarna Park. Once Taru left, a man in his twenties stabbed Darshana in the
stomach.
As Tongare screamed for help, Badde, a software engineer, stopped to help her. As Darshana pointed in the direction of a youth, Badde made an unsuccessful attempt to chase the youth before calling the police control room.
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