Pune Crime: Lover killed woman for not letting him read WhatsApp chats

Her addiction to the mobile phone application WhatsApp and her insistence on keeping her conversations private with the help of a password drove her partner to murder herThe same WhatsApp application helped the police to solve her murder case The mysterious case of a girlrsquos dead body found stuffed inside a suitcase at Kharadi on June 29 has been cracked by the Yerawada police who circulated the deceased girlrsquos photo on WhatsApp which later reached one of her employers and led to the arrest of her partner who had been abscondingThe mysterious case of a girlrsquos dead body found stuffed inside a suitcase at Kharadi on June 29 has been cracked by the Yerawada police who circulated the deceased girlrsquos photo on WhatsApp PicsMohan PatilThe victim who has since been identified as Anuradha Ganpat Kulkarni 21 was a native of Latur and was allegedly murdered by lover Prashant Jeevan Suryavanshi 23 also from Latur The two had been living together at the Jadhav Vasti area in Ghorpadi for the past three years after running away from Latur Prashant drove an autorickshaw in the city while Anuradha worked at a shop in Clover Centre building in Camp Anuradha lost her parents a few years back and is survived by a sisterA team of cops from Yerawada police station cracked the case including Police Inspectors Sanjay Patil and Vilas Sonde and Assistant Police Inspector Chandrakant JadhavWhile addressing media persons on Tuesday Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone IV Manoj Patil said ldquoInvestigations into this case have shown how social media like WhatsApp and Facebook can be used in positive ways The dead body had started decomposing inside the suitcase However we improvised with the help of graphics and circulated an image of her on social media It reached a person in Camp who informed the Cantonment police station about one of her female employees who had gone missing That person also gave us information about a boy who used to come to the office and demand the girlrsquos outstanding salary which raised suspicionrdquoldquoOnce the identities were confirmed the boy was traced first to Nashik and then Vadodara in Gujarat from where he was picked up During interrogation he confessed that he had throttled Anuradha in their home on June 29 stuffed her body in a suitcase and dumped it at Kharadi We are also checking the possible involvement of any other person in this crime who may have helped Prashantrdquo DCP Patil saidNabbed The accused was traced first to Nashik and then Vadodara in Gujarat from where he was picked upA senior official from Yerawada police station said ldquoPrashant had killed Anuradha a day before that is on the night of June 28 He then stuffed her body in a suitcase and took it with him in an autorickshaw He first went to Theur about 25 km from the city but could not abandon the bag there He then drove his auto to Kharadi and dumped it near the octroi post He waited for nearly an hour for citizens and police to arrive at the spot He left the area only once the police had taken the bag into their custodyrdquoldquoPrimary interrogation has revealed that Prashant was upset with Anuradha as she used to chat constantly on WhatsApp messenger on her mobile phone She had kept a screen password so that her conversations remained private Prashant had arguments with her over this issue several times Prashant suspected that Anuradha was involved in another relationship and hence took the extreme step of murdering herrdquo said the officer on condition of anonymity