A PERSONAL assistant of Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Pankaja Munde was arrested here on Monday on charges of abetting the suicide of his wife, a dentist at a civic hospital, police said. Dr Gauri Palve (28), wife of accused Anant Garje, allegedly hanged herself in her flat at Worli in central Mumbai on Saturday due to a domestic dispute, nearly 10 months after their marriage, an official said.

 

Based on a complaint filed by Palve’s father, the Worli police registered an abetment of suicide case against Garje, a personal assistant to Minister Munde, and two of his relatives. Garje was produced before a magistrate’s court, which remanded him to police custody till November 27. In their police complaint, Palve’s family alleged that Garje had an extra-marital affair, and she caught him chatting with another woman on a mobile phone.