Meerut bizman suicide: Father held for murder bid on wife of deceased

Meerut: In a twist to Meerut businessman Amit Bansal and his wife Pinky Bansal’s suicide case, city police has now booked Amit’s father for attempting to murder Pinky. On receiving a complaint from Pinky’s family, police filed an FIR against Ramkishan Bansal. They also managed to get CCTV footage substantiating his act.

According to cops, Ramkishan Bansal, an advocate, slashed his daughter-in-law Pinky’s neck in front of her 7-months-old daughter. He took this extreme step as he believed Pinky to be the reason behind the death of his son, who ended life by hanging himself from a ceiling fan.

Notably, Ramkishan was the one who had called police after the crime took place on Monday evening. He even told cops that his son had killed himself and after seeing his body, Pinky slashed her neck and wrist to kill herself. The theory seemed convincing enough as Ramkishan had just lost his son and there was no evidence against him at that moment. Also, Pinky was unconscious and could not elaborate the events of the day.

“We were convinced it’s a case of suicide, but later we found that the major part of the CCTV footage was hazy. We then formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter. The team tried to make the footage clearer by using some special software, post which we found that it is true that Pinky had slashed her wrist after seeing Amit’s body, but she was later thrashed by her father-in-law who used the same cutter to slash her wrist. We also found that her mother-in-law was present on the spot, but didn’t make any attempt to stop her husband,” said SP (city) Vineet Bhatnagar.

While the family cremated Amit Bansal on Tuesday, Pinky Bansal is still battling for her life in the ICU of a Noida hospital.