Rajkot: A police constable was booked on Tuesday in Rajkot for allegedly driving a mobile shop owner to suicide last month.
Bharat alias Devanand Savseta, who is posted at Gandhigram police station, had threatened the deceased Vikram Khandekha to book in a false rape case if he would not stop talking to Jigna Ahir. Ahir is Savseta’s brother-in-law’s wife. Khandekha and Ahir used to chat on social media platforms and talk on calls. When Ahir’s husband Kuldeep learnt about it, he asked Savseta to intervene.
Savseta had visited Khandekha’s shop and threatened to stop all communications with Ahir.
He even said that if Khandekha will continue to talk to Ahir he will make sure that he will be booked in a false rape case at Malviyanagar police station. Following the threat, Khandekha went to a guest house on Dhebar Road and consumed poison. His body was found in the guest house on December 19.
Khandekha’s elder brother, Vijay, gave a brief statement to cops then as he was grieving but later when he found out that his brother was receiving threats, he started probing.
Vijay found footage of CCTV cameras installed at his brother’s shop where Savseta is seen and heard threatening him. Vijay gave a complaint along with CCTV footage to police on Tuesday.