Mumbai: Days after Versova siblings
Rameez and Rehab Chougle died in mysterious circumstances, their father
Gayasuddin broke his silence and admitted to TOI that pest control was carried
out in the house on July 3. TOI was the first to report on July 7 that the duo
had been killed by alleged pesticide poisoning.
Twenty-six-year-old
homoeopathic doctor Rameez died in his fifth floor apartment in Panch Dhara building, Yari Road, on July 4, while his sister, 27-year-old writer Rehab, passed away in hospital two days later. Both had suffered bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea before their condition worsened. “We have never denied that pest control was undertaken in our flat,” Gayasuddin said on Tuesday, outside the neighbourhood police chowky.
Well into the investigation, deputy commissioner of police (zone IX) Pratap Dighavkar as well as Versova inspector Sharad Borse continue to deny this. “The police have never asked us this question. If they had, what cause would we have to shield the contractor who is a third person?” says the bereaved father. “At the time the deaths occurred, my wife Farzana was too distressed to give the officers much details.”
Gayasuddin is a marketing professional with an insurance company in Oman. He arrived in India on July 4, after receiving word from his wife that his son was seriously ill. Rameez had passed away by then.
Piecing together the sequence of events, Gayasuddin says a local contractor, Rukhsar Almelkar, had treated the two bedrooms of the flat for bedbugs on July 3. Rehab and Rameez used one room, while Gayasuddin and his wife Farzana have the other.
Pest treatment started at 10am, by which time the siblings had left home. “Rameez returned around 5.30pm, while Rehab came back at 8.30pm. Maybe by negligence, they did enter their room. My wife’s room had been treated as well but she was busy cooking in the kitchen so she escaped the ill-effects,” he says.
Twenty-six-year-old
homoeopathic doctor Rameez died in his fifth floor apartment in Panch Dhara building, Yari Road, on July 4, while his sister, 27-year-old writer Rehab, passed away in hospital two days later. Both had suffered bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea before their condition worsened. “We have never denied that pest control was undertaken in our flat,” Gayasuddin said on Tuesday, outside the neighbourhood police chowky.
Well into the investigation, deputy commissioner of police (zone IX) Pratap Dighavkar as well as Versova inspector Sharad Borse continue to deny this. “The police have never asked us this question. If they had, what cause would we have to shield the contractor who is a third person?” says the bereaved father. “At the time the deaths occurred, my wife Farzana was too distressed to give the officers much details.”
Gayasuddin is a marketing professional with an insurance company in Oman. He arrived in India on July 4, after receiving word from his wife that his son was seriously ill. Rameez had passed away by then.
Piecing together the sequence of events, Gayasuddin says a local contractor, Rukhsar Almelkar, had treated the two bedrooms of the flat for bedbugs on July 3. Rehab and Rameez used one room, while Gayasuddin and his wife Farzana have the other.
Pest treatment started at 10am, by which time the siblings had left home. “Rameez returned around 5.30pm, while Rehab came back at 8.30pm. Maybe by negligence, they did enter their room. My wife’s room had been treated as well but she was busy cooking in the kitchen so she escaped the ill-effects,” he says.
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