Woman uses card game to blindfold, kill lover

Tired of constant threats from her lover, a woman allegedly killed him on July 25 during a card game.
According to Nalla Sopara police, Devidas Ghodmare, 32, lived with Sunita Sadanand Waghmare, 30, at the Evershine Chawl in Nalla Sopara. Both were residents of Chandrapur, near Nagpur, and had shifted to Nalla Sopara in 2004. Sunita had got married in 2002 but was love with Ghodmare and moved in with him.



However, all wasn’t well in their relationship police say.

According to API Valmik Patil of Nalla Sopara Police Station, the couple would have constant fights over petty issues and Devidas would often shut Sunita up by threatening to sell her to a brothel in Mumbai. “He took advantage of the fact that she was new to the big city and didn’t know anyone here,” Patil added.

Police said, tired of the constant threats Sunita decided to get rid of Devidas.

On July 25 she asked him to play the card game “Do Patti” with her. In this game one player’s eyes are blindfolded while the other hides the card. Then the blindfolds are removed and the player has to search for the missing card.

Police say Sunita allowed Devidas to win in the first two games, so that he would trust her.

However, the third time his eyes were blindfolded, police say, Sunita struck Devidas with saliyas (iron sticks) she had picked up from construction sites. The officers added that Sunita has also confessed to having tied up Devidas’s hands and legs as part of the game, preventing him from defending himself.

Police say Devidas’s skull was ruptured and he succumbed to his injuries almost immediately. However, to ensure that he had died, Sunita also drove a kitchen knife through his heart. She fled the house and the neighbours found the body.

Patil said, “When we reached the site, we found Devidas’s body, the cards and the knife. However, while searching the house we found a diary where he had just written ‘Sunita’ in small handwriting on the corner of a page.

While interrogating his colleagues we found that Devidas was living with Sunita. Eventually we found out that Sunita was hiding in a village in Chandrapur district. We managed to arrest her on Friday and booked her under Section 302 (murder) of the IPC on August 6. She was produced before the Vasai Sessions Court on Saturday and has been remanded in police custody till August