The 10-day search for Marathi actress Alka Punewar ended on Tuesday, with the Crime Branch tracing her to a Chennai hotel where she had been hiding with her boyfriend. The 48-year-old, twice-married Thane-based actress' disappearance on December 27, and the subsequent search that revealed she had eloped with a man half her age, is a story straight out of a Bollywood thriller.
While the Mumbai Police, whose initial probe was based on the assumption that Punewar was murdered, didn't manage to speak to her and her boyfriend Alok Paliwal, 24, a resident of Bangalore, the actress on Tuesday kicked up a row with the staff at the Chennai Police Commissionerate after she was refused a meeting with the commissioner.
Inspector Mary Anandi from an all-women police station in Chennai said, "Punewar visited the Police Commissioner's Office early on Tuesday, but the staff directed her to a local police station. She was extremely aggressive, and kept screaming that she didn't want to go back to her husband in Mumbai."
The Chennai cops called up their counterparts in Mumbai, and were told that a team was on its waytotakecustodyofPunewarandherboyfriend. "She insisted on staying in a hotel, and threatened to harm herself if we questioned her.We have sent her to a shelter, and will hand her over to the Mumbai Police as soon as they arrive," Inspector Anandi said. The Mumbai Police sources said the cops were not likely to pursue the case, and a closure report could be filed.
THE DISAPPEARANCE Punewar,who has played small roles in a few Hindi movies and TV serials, left her house on December 27 saying she and her troupe had a stage performance scheduled in Pune via Uran. Her husband Sanjay Punewar dropped her to Thane Railway Station,from where she was to drive to Pune in her car. The actress' family approached police two days later, saying they weren't able to contact her. Meanwhile, the Khopoli Police found the mangled remains of her car and her mobile phone in the valley off Palaspe Phata on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, raising suspicions that she had met with an accident or had been murdered.
The murder/kidnap theory grew stronger after Sanjay told the cops that he had received an SMS from Punewar at 4.30 am on December 28, which listed an email ID with instructions to forward their son's resume.
THE LOVE AFFAIR Punewar,who has a 25-year-old daughter from her first marriage and 17-year-old twins (a son and a daughter) from her second marriage, came into contact with Alok Paliwal through a social networking site four years ago, when he was studying engineering. The two, however, met only two years ago.
The police sources said the two grew closer after Paliwal completed his studies, and visited Punewar in Mumbai before landing a job in Bangalore. He even introduced her to his parents,telling them her name was Nikita Mishra. A Crime Branch officer said, "They met frequently... Punewar would travel to Bangalore, but tell her family that she was travelling to Thailand for shows."
THE PLAN Punewar and Paliwal told the latter's friend, Navi Mumbai resident Sanjay Sonkar, of their intention to elope, and the three drew up a plan. Paliwal and Sonkar were batch-mates at the engineering college, and the latter worked for a telecom firm in Mumbai.
A couple of weeks before eloping, the couple purchased a used car online for Rs 28,000. On December 27, after Punewar's husband dropped her off at Thane Railway Station, Paliwal and Sonkar met up with her and the three drove to Kopar Khairane in Navi Mumbai, then to CST where they told Punewar to take a bus or a train to Pune.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Niket Kaushik said,"They had planned to push the car off the road and feared the spot they had chosen was not secluded enough. They feared getting arrested if Punewar was around."
Paliwal and Sonkar reached the spot off Palaspe Phata, from where they pushed the car into the gorge."They stopped the trucks on the Expressway and said a car had fallen off the road. They even convinced one of the drivers to inform police. Later, they sneaked out after getting a lift from a biker," a police officer said.
Paliwal then went to Pune to join his lover, while Sonkar returned home to Panvel.
THE BREAKTHROUGH Punewar's call details revealed that she had sent three SMSes to a number that had been disconnected since July last year. The number belonged to a Bangalore-based man (Alok Paliwal).
The Property Cell of the Crime Branch, however, managed to access the mobile phone number that Paliwal was currently using, and found that he was in Chennai since December 29.
The cops also found that Paliwal was in touch with Sanjay Sonkar, who was detained yesterday. He revealed the couple's whereabouts, and the game was up.
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