Gujarat: 'Cop killed his lover to avoid Rs 25 lakh alimony'

AHMEDABAD: Not wanting to go through the bother of raising Rs 25 lakh to divorce his wife, police inspector Ajay Desai killed his live-in partner Sweety Patel, according to the confessions of the accused.
Desai's motive was to finish off Patel's pressure on him to marry her, investigators revealed on Sunday. Confessions of Desai, formerly with the special operations group in Karjan in Vadodara district, came about 49 days after Patel 'disappeared'. He told investigators that he was not willing to give in to Patel's wishes because he wanted to avoid the financial hit.
"Desai was already in a relationship with Patel when he married a woman from his community in 2017," an investigator said. "He promised Patel that he would separate from his wife."
The investigator said even after Desai married the woman from his community, he continued to stay with Patel. "Desai says he live with Patel at a temple in 2017. But she wanted the marriage to be legalized," he said. "Desai says he explained to Patel the cost of divorcing his community's woman."
‘First planned to take her to Atali village for murder’
This deadlock triggered fights between Desai and Patel, the intensity of which escalated by the day. “Patel apparently continually told Desai to either leave or kill one of the two women in his life,” the investigator said. Desai decided to eliminate Patel.
“For about four months, Desai plotted her murder,” the investigator said. “But on June 4, they had another altercation and he chose that moment to kill her.” Desai had initially wanted to take her to a hotel in Atali village near Dahej and had planned to kill her there. But the quarrel on June 4 night enraged him so much that he strangled her. He disposed of the body at the hotel belonging to his friend Kiritsinh Jadeja.
Patel went missing on June 5 after which a probe began and ultimately crime branch and ATS took over the case and caught Desai.