Married man injects girlfriend with poison

After struggling between life and death for 16 days, the woman died in Kanpur's LLR Hospital on Wednesday.

Lucknow: A 30-year-old man in Kanpur poisoned his 24-year-old girlfriend when she tried to distance herself from him after coming to know that he was married and had a daughter.

After struggling between life and death for 16 days, the woman died in Kanpur's LLR Hospital on Wednesday.

Pooja Tiwari of Unnao, who was pursuing her M. Sc. from PG College in Kanpur and lived in Harbansh-Mohal, met Shailendra Singh three years ago. He introduced himself as a Ph. D. student in Kanpur University.

He also told her that he was single and willing to marry her after completing his education.
S. K. Tiwari, a school teacher and Pooja's father, said she found out last year that Singh was a school dropout and had a family of his own in Kanpur.

Singh, a caterer by profession, started terrorising and blackmailing Pooja when she tried to sever her relation with him. So she shifted from Kanpur to her father's house in Bamba Khera colony of Om Nagar area in Unnao. But Shailendra continued to call her up. "He came to our house on September 29, when my wife Shakuntala and Pooja were at home. He told Pooja that he would leave her alone after explaining everything to her. So Pooja went out with him," the aggrieved father said.

The woman was later found unconscious on the side of a Kanpur road. She was taken to a hospital, where she said that Shailendra tried to force her to continue their relation and threatened that he would kill her. When she declined, he suddenly injected some poison in her body and escaped.

DIG Kanpur Ashfaq Ahmed said a case has been registered and an inquiry ordered. "The accused is at large. But we will arrest him soon," he added.