Pankaja Munde's PA remanded in police custody for 3 more days
MUMBAI, Nov. 28 -- The Bhoiwada metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday extended the police remand of environment minister Pankaja Munde's personal assistant, arrested for allegedly abetting his wife's suicide, by three days till Tuesday.
The 31-year-old accused was arrested on November 24, after the family of the deceased dentist alleged foul play and claimed she was murdered. He was produced before the Bhoiwada court on Thursday, as his earlier police custody ended.
The Worli police sought ten days' custody for the accused, saying they had come across several leads which needed to be probed, including injury marks on him and his deceased wife and recordings of conversations between the couple on his phone.
"We want to confront him with the recordings," the police told the court. "He and his wife used to fight regularly. We need to find the exact cause of death."
The police also feared that the accused might tamper with the evidence.
Advocate Mangesh Deshmukh, representing the accused, told the court the injury marks found on his client were old. His client had himself surrendered before the police and was fully co-operating with investigators, he said.
"We have submitted the phone to the police. The recordings were on our phone. If they could be used to frame us, why would we keep them on the phone," the advocate told the court.
After hearing both sides, the court extended the accused's police remand till Tuesday....
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