Cabbie kills self, blames taxi firm

May 19, 2010 |

mumbai

The police on Tuesday registered an abetment to suicide case against a private taxi company after a taxi driver blamed them in his suicide note.
According to the Colaba police, Veerpal Singh (70), a taxi driver originally from Punjab, jumped to death from the fifth floor of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YCMA) hostel on Tuesday.
Singh left behind a suicide note saying that he had sold his taxi permit to the Meru Cab company a month ago for Rs 2 lakhs and had been trying to get that money back ever since.
However, repeated attempts to get the company to pay him the money had failed, due to which he was depressed. Singh was a divorcee and had been living alone at the YMCA hostel for the last 30 years.
“A complaint of abetment to suicide has been registered against the Meru Cab company. However, no arrests have been made in the case yet. Further inquiries are on,” said A. K. Ingle, senior police inspector, Colaba police station.
Meanwhile, a Meru spo-kesperson said that the company had not been contacted by the police as yet and did not know all the facts. However, as a responsible company, it would take proper action, the spokesperson added.

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35-yr-old bludgeoned to death
Mumbai : A 35-year-old person who ran a catering business in Mankhurd was found murdered with his head beaten in with stones, on Tuesday morning.
Mystery shrouds the death of Raju Sitaram Sable (35), who was found brutally murdered near his residence in the Lallubhai Compound in Mankhurd.
The police said that Sable went to Vapi and returned to his residence in Mankhurd on Monday in an inebriated condition. He left his residence at around 8.30 pm, after which his family said that he never returned.
His family members were shell-shocked early on Tuesday morning after a person contacted them, saying that Sable had been murdered.
“We have registered a case of murder against unidentified persons and are quizzing a few locals,” added sub-inspector of the Mankhurd police station Mr P.N. Salunke.

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