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Gujarat man held for pushing lover, 45, before train
A 25-year-old man, Prakash Solanki, was arrested in Gujarat for allegedly pushing his 45-year-old lover in front of a train in Gondal, killing her. The woman's body was found on August 4…
The Story in Brief
A 25-year-old man, Prakash Solanki, was arrested in Gujarat for allegedly pushing his 45-year-old lover in front of a train in Gondal, killing her. The woman's body was found on August 4 near the tracks. The railway police initially treated it as an accident, but injuries and CCTV footage led to Solanki's arrest.
CCTV from Gondal station showed the woman arriving with Solanki at 11.30 pm on August 3. As a train approached, he pushed her onto the tracks. Police said Solanki confessed, telling them the woman kept pressuring him to marry her, but his family opposed the match. The woman was living apart from her husband and worked as a cook.
The Indian Opinion
Headlines will paint this as a simple crime of passion, but the real story is the quiet desperation of a woman who had to pressure a man half her age into commitment. Equally troubling is how easily a murder was disguised as a rail accident until a sharp-eyed post-mortem said otherwise. This case should test whether police routinely treat track deaths as accidents without proper scrutiny. How many bodies have been ruled accidental without a second look? A national audit of rail death investigations would settle that question, and it is long overdue.
Source: indiatoday.in
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