Another star hotel asked fighting couple, aide to leave
Times of India | 13 May 2024
Kolkata: A day after a businessman from Gujarat and his aide from Mumbai were arrested for a severe attack on the businessman’s wife at a star hotel in the city, police found on Sunday that the three had recently put up at another star hotel, which had asked them to leave on the night of May 8 for their constant rows, which had led other guests to expressed their displeasure.The wife, a transwoman, was also arrested on Sunday under Foreigners Act for using fake citizenship documents.
After being asked to vacate that hotel, the three had checked into the star hotel on E M Bypass on May 9.
Police said the couple had legally got married on May 2. “But the Vadodara-based businessman claimed they got married on May 6. Shortly, the woman apparently told him she faced multiple problems adjusting to his demands and that she wanted to end their marriage. The woman said she felt like a victim of marital rape,” said an officer, adding this led to the couple’s constant fights at the two hotels.
On the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, the woman was found severely injured in the hotel’s lobby and she had claimed she had been assaulted by her husband and his aide. The two men were arrested from near the airport and booked for attempt to murder and assault. “The men have been remanded in police custody till May 16 and the woman till May 18,” said DC (East) Arish Bilal. Police are checking the CCTV footage from the two hotels’ lobbies.
A probe has revealed the businessman’s family was upset with the wedding and that they had sent his aide, who ran a security agency, to visit Kolkata and convince the businessman to break up. But with the turn of the event, the aide told police, he had sided with the businessman.
Cops said the woman was a Bangladeshi national from Barisal who had illegally entered India through the Tripura border in 2012. She lived in Guwahati for some time, used forged documents to get an Aadhaar card from Howrah and started a sex-change procedure at a clinic in Delhi’s Rohini in 2013. In 2020, she shifted to Uluberia and started living with a ‘guruma’. She then frequented dance bars in Bihar, Delhi and Goa. She had met the businessman at a New Year’s party last year in Goa and the two decided to get married, police said.