Cops rescue man tortured by wife for his property

A 37yearold woman has been arrested by officials of the Market Yard police station for violence against her 45yearold husband allegedly for his property The police said the woman tied her husbandrsquos hands with a rope and beat him black and blue and inflicted burn injuries on him with an iron and deep cuts on his fingers with a kitchen knife The man was rescued from his home on Sunday morning after the police went to investigate bloodstains found at his shop in Market Yard where his wife allegedly first attacked him the previous night The arrested woman was identified as Shobha Sanjay Talekar a resident of Katraj Thrashed burnt and cut Sanjay Talekar shows his wounds in hospital yesterday He says his wife beat him inflicted burn injuries on his back with an iron and cuts on his fingers with a knife PicsSandip Kolhatkar The police said the complainant Sanjay Talekar was a vegetable trader at Market Yard They said he registered a complaint against his wife on Sunday after she thrashed him at his Market Yard shop as well as at his Katraj residence on Saturday night Sanjay who is in hospital said his wife had been harassing him for three years to make him leave her and give her his property ldquoI have been married to Shobha for almost 17 years and we have a 13yearold son but over the past three years I have been subjected to mental and physical harassment by her to force me to put all my property including the flat in her name and also to force me to leave herrdquo Sanjay said He said he would often stay at his shop just to avoid the daily harassment ldquoOn Saturday night I was sleeping at my shop when Shobha came there and again started fighting with me over the propertyrdquo he said ldquoI told her I will give half of the property to her since she is my wife but she demanded that I should give her everything including the flat where we live When I objected she assaulted me on my fingers with a knife and also beat me She then took me to our flat where she again resorted to violence with the help of my 13yearold sonrdquo He said that at their flat his wife tied him up with their sonrsquos help and burnt him with an iron before inflicting more injuries with a knife ldquoShe gave me burn injuries on my legs and on my back with a hot iron and again taking out a knife inflicted deep cuts on the fingers of both my handsrdquo he said ldquoShe also kicked me and beat me with sticksrdquo He said the police rescued him the next morning ldquoI was fortunate as the police rushed to my place in the morning and rescued me from her clutchesrdquo he said ldquoI was then rushed to the hospital where I am undergoing treatmentrdquou00a0Police Inspector Crime Vilas Sondhe of the Market Yard police station said they were called to Sanjayrsquos shop in the morning by traders as there were bloodstains there ldquoWe got a call from some vegetable traders on Sunday morning informing about bloodstains at one of the shops in Market Yardrdquo he said ldquoWe rushed to the spot and after investigating we presumed that somebody had been murdered as there were a lot of bloodstains at the shop When learnt the shop belongs to Sanjay Talekar we got his address from other traders and went thererdquo Sondhe said Sanjayrsquos wife gave misleading answers after opening the door ldquoWhen we knocked on the door the accused woman opened it and when we asked her about Talekar she gave us vague answers and tried to avoid usrdquo Sondhe said ldquoAs we got suspicious we entered the flat and started checking the room and found Sanjay in the bedroom His clothes were soaked in blood and he was in a semiconscious staterdquo The police took Sanjay to a hospital and arrested Shobhau00a0ldquoAs he was severely injured we rushed Sanjay to a nearby hospital and after recording his statement in which he said that he had been assaulted by his wife and son over propertyrdquo Sondhe saidu00a0Shobha was arrested under Section 324 causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means of the IPC u00a0 Accomplice Involvement suspected A police official said that while it was true that Sanjay Talekar was assaulted and stabbed by his wife it was suspected that there must have been someone else who was involved in the attack as she on her own inflicting such injuries sounded incredible ldquoIt is not clear why Sanjay is not taking any other name We are going to speak to him again laterrdquo the official said