In a peculiar turn of events the case registered three months ago by the Mumbai’s Vasai station Government Railway Police as accident had to be re registered as murder much to the reluctance of the GRP, after the brother of the victim filed a petition. On June 5 this year, the GRP simply registered it as an accidental death, When Dayalal Dungarji Patidar (35) was found dead on the railway tracks near Bhayander.
His elder brother Tejpal, however, suspected foul play and appealed to the railway court to investigate the matter. The court's injunction to the GRP came in September 20 earlier this year, after Tejpal claimed that he had reason to believe that his brother had been killed. Taking cognisance of Tejpal's petition, the court ordered the Vasai GRP to reopen the case, lodge an FIR, and conduct investigations.
Tejpal had alleged that Dayalal's wife Jaymala (26) was embroiled in an adulterous affair with a man named Kamlesh, and was frustrated with her impotent husband. The GRP officers showed him a photograph of the body of the deceased. He said I examined the photograph, and found that things weren't quite adding up. When a man falls under a train, his body is usually severed into pieces. But the photograph made it clear that he had only sustained severe head injuries. I brought this to the notice of the police, who were dismissive, and waved me away. Realising that they would not lift a finger to mete out justice to my brother, I approached the Vasai railway court.
Investigations revealed that Dayalal and his wife parted ways and lived separately. In Rajasthan, Jayamala conspired with her father Natsi to dispose of Dayalal, who thereafter asked her to return to Mumbai, assuring her that he would do the needful. Natsi then conspired with his brother Velgi, and Jayamala's lover Kamlesh to get rid of Dayalal. Natsi and Velgi urged Dayalal to accept the offer of a job at Hotel Hanuman in Bhayander (East), which Velgi owned. They made him addicted to liquor as per plan and under the influence murdered him.
Inspite of a couple of trips by the police to Rajasthan the accused were absconding. A senior official of the Vasai GRP said that the unit had received orders from the Vasai railway court to update the case on September 20. He said we have to dispatch our team to the Rajasthan village and check the mobile phone records of the four accused.
