Vadodara: Woman, her mother booked for driving husband to suicide

VADODARA: A woman living in Anand and her mother were booked on Sunday for driving her estranged husband to suicide at his home at Dashrath village near Vadodara city.
The deceased Vipul Patel had left behind a suicide note on July 23 in which he had blamed his wife Punam Dadwani and his mother-in-law Babita for his extreme step. Patel had stated that the mother-daughter duo had planned the marriage with him in 2015 with an intention to get money from him.
After the FSL in Gandhinagar confirmed that the suicide note was written by Patel, an offence of abetment to suicide at Chhani police station.
According to Patel’s suicide note, Punam had filed false cases against him at a court in Anand to get maintenance money from him. He also wrote that although he was suffering from oral cancer, the two women did not show any mercy and refused to settle the issues amicably despite he was jailed.
He blamed the two women for his death and hanged himself from the railing of the staircase inside his house.
Police said that Punam had left Patel within five months of their marriage in 2015. Later she filed cases against him in Anand for maintenance. As Patel did not have any source of earnings, he could not pay the accumulated maintenance amount of over Rs 8 lakh due to which the court had sentenced him to imprisonment for 33 months in March.
Later, he was released on interim bail due to the pandemic. His family members told police that when he was out on bail, he was too depressed and worried about paying the maintenance amount as the two women had refused a settlement and was also facing difficulties in the jail due to his illness.
In July, a day before his bail period was to end, Patel took the extreme step.