Nalasopara

Navsari station

Gujarat

Sai Darshan Apartment

autorickshaw

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Cops say the 22-year-old accused saw the kid as an obstacle to her relationship as the girl’s father refused to marry her.Two days after the body of a 5-year-old girl, who was abducted from, was found in a toilet atin, the Tulinj police have cracked the case and arrested the father’s girlfriend.22-year-old Anita Waghela was charged with the kidnapping and murder of 5-year-old Anjali Saroj on Wednesday.On March 24, at around 8 pm, 5-year-old Anjali was playing with her friends below her buildingin Nalasopara. Her father, andriver, was at work while her mother was in the kitchen making dinner. CCTV footage from shops in the vicinity had shown a blurry image of a woman, first cajoling the children with chocolates, and then walking away with Anjali holding her hand.According to the police’s investigations, Waghela, 22, and Anjali’s father Santosh Saroj, 28, had been in a relationship for the past seven years. It is unclear if they started seeing each other before or after Santosh’s wedding, but the police believe that the affair had been going on for the entire duration of his marriage of seven years at least. Waghela told the police that initially, Santosh promised to marry her, but lately, he had been putting off solemnising their relationship saying that it was impossible for him to do so now that he was a father. Waghela then started seeing little Anjali almost as an obstacle to her relationship.On Saturday, Waghela, who lives in the same building as the Saroj family, abducted Anjali after luring her with candy. They took an auto to Virar and boarded a train to Vapi, Gujarat. Waghela then reportedly alighted at Navsari and strangulated Anjali in a urinal stall in a ladies’ toilet on platform No 1. She then came back home and pretended to help the family and cops in the investigation.What piqued the police’s curiosity and landed Waghela on their radar was the fact that she wasn’t around until Monday evening. She showed up at her house only hours after Anjali’s body was found. The police then asked around and discovered the affair.of Waghela were examined which showed her location as Gujarat during the crime. When they called her in for questioning, she broke down and confessed the whole thing.According to the police, Waghela has undergone two abortions.Additional SP Raj Tilak Roushan said, “The accused and the father of the victim had an affair for the past 6 to 7 years. He had promised to marry her but then recanted. She was angry and wanted to teach him a lesson, so she killed his daughter.”