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A week after a retired colonel was found drugged a locked up in a room of his house by police,have registered a case against his wife, Ritu Bakshi, who allegedly imprisoned him because she did not want him to go to Delhi to be with his ailing mother.The cops who rescued Rajiv Bakshi from his residence on May 9 booked his wife on May 15 — the day Pune Mirror published his story, ‘Drugged, locked in a room by his wife, retd colonel rescued from his Viman Nagar home’.After his discharge from Southern Command Hospital on the same day, the retired army officer filed an elaborate complaint in the evening at Vimantal police station. He stated, “My wife and I have been in dispute over the past two-three years. She is averse to me visiting my parents, relatives or friends. She has been against me meeting my parents. But on April 1, I got a call from my father informed me that my mother had suffered a heart attack and that I should rush to Delhi to be by her bedside.”He pointed out that at the time of the call, his wife was not at home and all attempts to reach her were in vain. So, he left for the airport, leaving a note to her. “I took the 4 pm Indigo flight to Delhi arriving there at 6.30 pm, and rushed to Fortis Escorts Hospital where my mother was admitted. Just as I reached the hospital, my wife called me and demanded to know where I was. I repeated my situation. She threw a fit, questioned my going without taking her permission and insisted I take the next flight back home, or she would file a complaint of domestic violence against me and have me arrested.”According to his account, he rebuked his wife for adding to his angst when his mother was in hospital undergoing a surgery, and cut the line. Next, Ritu reportedly lodged a missing person’s complaint. “Vimantal cops connected with me and informed me of the complaint, urging me to come and give a statement at the police station. So, I returned to Pune on May 2 and went directly to the PS to record my statement. After this, I went back to Delhi. But again, on the insistence of Vimantal police, I made one more trip to Pune on May 7. This time, my wife came to the PS and cops tried to counsel us, suggesting we sort out our problems,” he recounted.At this juncture, Ritu pressed her husband to go home with her to thrash out their differences. “Once home, she served me a glass of water that must have been spiked and I fell unconscious. On May 8, I tried to get up and exit the house, but my wife told me that she’d locked the door from outside. My father tried reaching me that evening and also called on my wife’s mobile number. But both our phones had been switched off. The next day, Vimantal police came calling at our home and were banging on the door. I regained my senses as they came in. Seeing my condition, they rushed me to.”Police inspector Balwant Mandge at Vimantal PS confirmed that they gone to the Bakshis’ home at the behest of Rajiv’s father, Vaid Prakash. “We made four visits to the place, but it was locked. Getting suspicious, we knocked hard, when the wife, who was inside, gave us the key so we could let ourselves in. We have booked her under section 328 (causing hurt by poisoning with intent to commit offence) of the,” he added.