Mumbai: Cop, commuters overpower man who stabs wife

A 32yearold Delhi man Shiva Sharma attempted to kill his wife Bishila Khatri 27 with a kitchen knife at the chaotic Virar railway station on Wednesday morning Fortunately alert officegoers and a Railway Protection Force RPF head constable intervened in the nick of timeShiva according to the police was unemployed and would always pick fights with Bishila over moneyOn Wednesday morning Shiva tried to strangle Bishila with her dupatta and then took out a knife to stab her Since it was a rush hour at the railway station officegoers rescued the woman along with the help of an RPF head constable at Virar stationBishila Khatri at Sanjivani hospital in Virar after being attacked by her husband PicsHanif PatelKhatri got injured in the melee and both her hands started to bleed when she tried to snatch the sharpedged weapon from her husbandA brave RPF head constable Satyendra Sharma along with the help of the public overpowered the angry husband and rescued the woman who was bleeding on the FOBJP Meena senior inspector RPF Virar told midday that Bhishilarsquos neck hands and right eye were injuredVirar railway station where the incident unfolded on WednesdayAfter first aid at Virar station the injured woman was rushed to Sanjivani hospital and her husband was handed over to the Government Railway Police Vasai ldquoWe have registered a case under Section 109 attempt to murder of BNS against the accused who will be produced before the court today The woman is out of danger and has been recuperating at a hospital in Virarrdquo said Inspector Bhagwan Babasaheb Dange from Vasai GRPVisit to police stationThe incident took place just a day after the couple had approached the Virar police station to register complaints against each other ldquoBut the womanrsquos cousin did not want to register a complaint and they left the police stationrdquo said an officer at Virar police stationldquoThe cousin told a constable that the couple would resolve their domestic issues and no complaint was maderdquo said a senior officer at the Virar police stationldquoThe kitchen knife was procured by Shiva from Bishilarsquos maternal unclersquos house in Virar East He had been living there for the past two to three monthsrdquo said police officerSources have told midday that the couple was not staying together due to differencesldquoShiva lives in Delhi and nearly three months ago he had to come to take Bishila to the national capital But she did not want to go with him Bishila lives with her parents in Virar and her husband also started to live with her in Virar Since he was unemployed he depended on his wife and constantly asked her for moneyrdquo said an officer from Virar police stationldquoThe couple got married a few years ago They had been living together in Delhi but the woman fled from thenational capital as her Shiva would always pick fights over petty issues and assault her She left him around threefour months ago and reached Mumbai She had been living with her mother and maternal uncle in Virar Eastrdquo the officer addedldquoSo the husband too came to Virar from Delhi and they had a verbal fight that snowballed into fisticuffs between them on the intervening nights of Monday and Tuesday Both the parties had gone to Virar police station early Tuesday morning to register cross FIRs against each other But no complaint was submitted at the police stationrdquo said an officerA source said that since the couple had fiercely fought over petty issues the husband had left home and stayed on a footpath in VirarThe woman is a housemaid in Goregaon and she was heading to catch a local train on Wednesday around 7 am When she reached the Virar station premises her husband who was apparently waiting for her arrival accosted her and the incident unfoldedThe woman is out of danger said a staff member at Sanjivani hospital where a team of Virar police had also come to find out what exactly had happened between the couple on Tuesday morningThe incident comes just a few days after a 20yearold woman Aarti Yadav was brutally killed by her former boyfriend Rohit Yadav alias Rohit Pal 29 with a 35cm long industrial wrench in the middle of a road in Vasai last monthJuly 2Day couple approached Virar police station7 amApprox time incident occurred on Wed