Pune, May 5 (PTI) A government functionary posted as an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to a Maharashtra cabinet minister was booked on Monday for allegedly attempting to murder his wife when asked about phone chats and assaulting their son at their Pune city home, police said.
The officer is currently on deputation at Mantralaya (state secretariat) in Mumbai. The bureaucrat was booked after his wife filed a complaint at the Koregaon Park police station, they said.
The OSD was booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 109(1) (attempt to murder), 118(1) (voluntarily causing hurt using dangerous weapons or means) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation), according to police.
According to the FIR, the alleged incident took place on April 30 at the couple’s residence in the city.
The officer got angry when his wife asked him about the password of his mobile phone. She also enquired about some of the messages he had received and sent from the phone, said police, citing the complaint.
Enraged over his wife’s repeated queries, the OSD allegedly beat her up and tried to strangle her to death. When their son tried to intervene, he attacked him with a bat, said police.
The officer’s wife then pushed him away and later left for Ahilyanagar district, around 125km from Pune, with their son, they added. PTI COR RSY
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