PUNE: The Bhosari police arrested a 26-year-old Nepali woman from male officers’ quarters on the College of Military Engineering (CME) campus in Dapodi of India, where she was allegedly staying illegally since March 23.
The woman was traced to the CME campus after a Pune man accused her of accepting Rs85 lakh from him after promising to help him secure a parking contract in Dubai in 2019, TOI reported.
Police said the woman then fled to Nepal and then arrived in Pune in Janus year.
The man, who had been tracking the woman, approached the Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissioner with a complaint application and a letter from the Indian consulate in Dubai last week and told police he had last traced her to Bhosari.
The police tracked her down to the CME campus and apprehended her on Monday. An officer from CME, on the condition of anonymity, said the woman was trespassing on the campus and that they were investigating how she entered the premises.
Another CME officer said, “We came to know about the woman’s entry into the campus only after the police approached us. As of now, we don’t have any knowledge about her connection with any Army personnel.”
The woman has been charged under IPC Section 452 (house trespass) and relevant sections of the Mumbai Police Act.
On Tuesday, a local court remanded her in police custody for two days. “Since March 23, the woman was staying at an honorary captain’s bungalow and never came out of the facility.
Senior CME officers too were surprised when they learned about her presence,” a police officer part of the investigation said.
The officer said, “After the Dubai episode, she came to Pune and was staying at a hostel in Koregaon Park, where she met the CME honorary captain on one occasion.
The two kept in touch over the phone and in March, when the lockdown was announced, the woman had no place to stay.
She contacted the CME officer. As one cannot easily enter the CME premises without prior permission, the woman entered illegally on the night of March 23 and has been staying in the G-157/7 quarters since then.
(with inputs from Agencies)
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