A woman software engineer with a reputed company at Magarpatta city in Hadapsar was murdered on Sus Road around 11.30 pm on Wednesday. The police have identified the deceased as Urvashi Laxman Dhawale (32), a resident of Swami Samartha Society in Pashan.

The motive has not yet been confirmed but the police have detained Urvashi’s husband Arvind Vamanrao Ghadole at Gondia in Chandrapur. They said Urvashi and Arvind had filed a divorce application at Nagpur court while a property dispute case between them is pending in a Pune court.

According to them, Urvashi had gone to her mother’s house in Pashan from her workplace on Wednesday evening. She was going home from there on a two-wheeler when unidentified men attacked her with a sharp weapon on an isolated stretch near her residence. Urvashi died on the spot.

Residents who saw her body in a pool of blood on the road informed the police, following which a team of Chaturshringi police rushed to the spot. Senior police officers also visited the crime scene. The body, which had 12 major injuries, was sent for post-mortem examination. Her parents are staying nearby at Chindananda Society in Pashan. Urvashi had married Arvind, also an engineer, in 2001.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Mahesh Patil told the media that Urvashi and Arvind had parted ways about two years after their marriage and filed a divorce petition. “Arvind had shifted to Nagpur and filed the petition at a family court. They also had a dispute over the ownership of a flat in Pashan. A Nagpur court had given a decision in Urvashi’s favour on Monday. Urvashi’s parents suspect this could be the reason behind her murder.”

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