Kushal Agarwal, the husband of homemaker Rashika Jain who died last year after falling from height at her in-laws’ place, was re-sent to police custody on Friday.
The police remand was extended till July 26 after the cops submitted medical reports that were seized during raids at the Agarwal residence and purportedly showed how Rashika was allegedly physically tortured.
Rashika got married to industrialist Agarwal on February 9, 2020.
Agarwal was arrested last Wednesday, more than one-and-a-half years after Rashika’s death and a formal complaint was lodged by her parents with Kolkata police.
The arrest came after the case was handed over to a special investigation team headed by special commissioner of police Damayanti Sen.
The police on Friday submitted before the court that they had raided the Agarwal residence twice based on the statement of Kushal Agarwal after his arrest and found medical documents that suggested Rashika was allegedly subjected to physical and mental torture.
The cops said they also recorded doctors’ statements apparently corroborating the medical reports..
They also submitted before the court that only a part of Rashika’s jewellery and other belongings had been seized from the Agarwal residence and that there was a need to take Agarwal into custody again to get more details about those articles and others.
Rashika’s lawyers mentioned that Agarwal had been “absconding” since the complaint was lodged against him last year. Hence, they objected to the bail petition moved by Agarwal’s lawyer.
Agarwal’s defence counsel said the inclusion of Section 406 of the Indian Penal Code that deals with breach of trust was an “afterthought” by the complainant.
However, after hearing both sides, the court on Friday extended the police remand.
