In late 2024, families arranged a marriage proposal between Sagar (24) and Mayuri (20) in Pune, Maharashtra. After completing the Roka ceremony, engagement, and a pre-wedding photoshoot, Mayuri revealed to a male friend that she did not wish to marry Sagar because she preferred her friend. Mayuri attempted to pressure Sagar into rejecting the proposal, but Sagar refused to cancel the marriage scheduled for March 12, 2025. Mayuri then conspired with her boyfriend and her cousin to eliminate Sagar, offering 1.25 lakh rupees to hired attackers. On February 27, 2025, Mayuri asked Sagar to take her to a matinee movie. After Sagar dropped her back home and was returning on his motorcycle around 7:30 PM, four men in a car intercepted him, beat him severely with wooden sticks, and broke his legs so he could not attend the wedding. Sagar survived and reported the assault from the hospital, recalling that an attacker mentioned breaking his legs for the wedding. Police analyzed CCTV footage, identified the vehicle, and recognized Mayuri's cousin. Upon arrest, the cousin and three accomplices confessed that Mayuri had paid them for a contract hit. Police detained Mayuri's boyfriend, while Mayuri fled and remains absconding.
Country: India
State/Province: Maharashtra, India
City/Region: Pune
Incident Type: Attempted Murder
Relationship Status: Engaged
Relationship Duration: Approximately 3 months
Incident Date: Feb. 27, 2025
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2025-02-27
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Romantic Triangle
The case illustrates a severe escalation of an unwanted arranged match, where formal commitment rituals—Roka, engagement, pre-wedding photoshoot, and printed invitations—created intense social pressure. Rather than breaking the match directly with her family, the suspect sought to force the victim to reject her. When the victim refused, the suspect leveraged a romantic triangle and family connections to execute a pre-arranged physical attack using hired accomplices.
The primary case occurred in Pune, Maharashtra. The preliminary news report also included an unrelated introductory report from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, concerning proxy witnesses testifying across multiple court trials. In the Pune case, police used CCTV scanning outside a restaurant along the route to trace the suspect vehicle. Upon capturing clear footage of four suspects, police showed images to the victim, who identified his fiancée's cousin. Following the arrests of the cousin, three hired attackers, and the fiancée's boyfriend, police confirmed a contract payment of 1.25 lakh rupees. Mayuri remains absconding as police pursue an attempted murder charge.
Initial confusion existed because the incident initially appeared to be a random roadside assault or road-rage confrontation occurring at night. Investigators resolved the uncertainty after analyzing the victim's recollection of a specific sentence spoken by an attacker regarding breaking his legs so he could not attend his wedding.
Mayuri arranged for Sagar to drop her off after a movie date on February 27, 2025, ensuring his position and timing were established. She dispatched her cousin and hired accomplices, who ambushed Sagar on his motorcycle. Although Mayuri requested Sagar's murder, the attackers opted to inflict severe leg injuries and issue threats. Sagar reported the attack from the hospital, pointing to the wedding motive. CCTV footage identified the car and Mayuri's cousin, whose confession unraveled the murder-for-hire plot.
The risk factors escalated dramatically when the wedding date drew near and the bride-to-be felt trapped by social momentum. Her inability to openly cancel the marriage combined with an unacknowledged extradyadic relationship led directly to instrumental violence. The use of hired contract attackers demonstrates a lethal degree of intent, mitigated only by the hired perpetrators' unilateral choice to substitute non-fatal crippling injuries for homicide.
Severe social or familial pressures surrounding formal wedding arrangements can drive individuals to extreme deception or violence when they feel unable to break an engagement openly. Statements uttered by perpetrators during an assault often provide vital investigative leads linking personal motives to crime scenes.
Mayuri expressed clear dissatisfaction with the match, pressured Sagar to reject her personally, and engaged in a hidden romantic relationship while pre-wedding rituals proceeded.
The critical clue was the statement overheard by Sagar before he lost consciousness, where the attacker explicitly instructed others to break his legs so he could not attend his wedding.
CCTV footage recorded by a camera outside a restaurant near the assault site provided vehicular and facial identification, leading directly to the identification of the bride's cousin and subsequent confessions.
Sagar reported that before losing consciousness, he heard one attacker say: 'Hit his legs harder with the dandas, break his legs so that he becomes incapable of even attending his own wedding!' No other formal third-party witness statements were quoted.
Initial reporting treated the incident as an unknown assault; follow-up investigations revealed a premeditated contract hit funded with 1.25 lakh rupees by the victim's fiancée.
At the time of the report, the primary suspect, Mayuri, remained missing and absconding from police custody.