A coconut vendor, who had been asked to provide coconut juice to a pregnant Nagpada resident, instead fell in love with his customer and tried to force himself on her.
This tale of one-sided love is sure to provide ‘inspiration’ to some Bollywood scriptwriter.
A coconut vendor, who had been asked to provide coconut juice to a pregnant Nagpada resident, instead fell in love with his customer and tried to force himself on her.
The woman managed to escape, and with the help of some police officers managed to trap the vendor the next day.
The accused, Usman Abdul Sattar Shaikh, a resident of Kamathipura in Nagpada, runs a coconut juice stall opposite the victim’s building. A
ccording to the police, the 21-year-old victim is four months pregnant, and was advised by her husband to drink coconut juice. The husband directed Shaikh to deliver coconut juice to his residence for a fortnight.
“Since the past eight days, Shaikh used to deliver coconut juice regularly. Recently, the victim had asked Shaikh not to deliver the juice for a few days,” said a police officer from the Nagpada police station.
He added that on October 7, when the victim was alone at home, Shaikh reached her residence. When she explained that she didn’t want the juice for a few days, Shaikh got into an argument with her and tried to force himself on her.
Shaikh then confessed his love for the victim, saying he didn’t like accepting money from her for the coconuts and was even ready to die for her. When she resisted, he threatened her with a knife. The victim managed to trick the vendor into leaving by saying that she loved him back but was afraid of her husband.
“When the victim’s husband returned home, she narrated the whole incident to him, following which they lodged a police complaint. We made inquiries about Shaikh and nabbed him from the Siddharth Nagar in Nagpada on October 8,” said another police officer.
Shaikh was booked under sections 327 (causing hurt voluntarily), 345 (wrongful confinement), 451 (trespassing in order to commit offense), 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) and 509 (outraging the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code.
He was produced before a local court and has been remanded in police custody till October 12.
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