Overview
- The police say the accused took the woman to the Naikwadi waterfall area and pushed her into the gorge on Friday, after she told him she would not continue their relationship.
- He initially reported her missing and gave inconsistent accounts before confessing to investigators and pointing them to the spot where the body lay.
- A specialist team from the Sahyadri Rescue Team recovered the body from the roughly 500-foot-deep gorge and relatives identified it before it was sent to CPR Hospital in Kolhapur for post-mortem.
- Authorities have charged the suspect under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder and have taken his and the victim’s phones for forensic analysis as the probe continues.
- The victim was a final-year civil engineering student whose family had fixed her marriage months earlier, a detail police say helps explain the alleged motive and has stirred local outrage and calls for a fast trial.