Sandeep Patel

Bhuj

disturbed

Sola police

Gujarat University police

Bipin

New Umaidnagar

rob

clinic

leaving certificate

Indirabai Girls School

Sola PI BV

GU Police

was just 14 when he first saw Heena Jobanputra at a Swaminarayan Temple in Gandhinagar. In her 30s, she was visiting fromwith her parents and brother. They grew close and when Sandeep turned 18, they braved societal pressure to get married. However, this love story doesn't have a happy ending. Eight years since the wedding, a ‘mentally’ Sandeep attends regular sessions with his doctor while his wife is on the run after allegedly cheating him of huge sums of money and valuables. According to Sandeep’s grandfather Lakshman Patel, Heena lied about her age and married his grandson for his money. He also alleges that Heena, who is actually 48, had obtained a passport in which she had mentioned her birth year as 1980. Patel had filed an complaint inon December 13 in this regard which was later transferred to thestation.Sandeep, who belongs to an NRI family, was living with his grandfather in Kalol when he met Heena in 2002. She was visiting the Swaminarayan Temple in Gandhinagar-Sector 2 with her family from Bhuj. As the Jobanputras had no place to stay in the city, Sandeep allowed them to live at one of their vacant houses. “Heena and her brother, realising that Sandeep belonged to a rich family, concocted a plan to ensnare him in their web of deceit and loot him,” Patel alleges. He claims that Heena’s interactions with his grandson grew and Sandeep, who was just 14 at the time, became infatuated with her. “He even went to stay with Heena in Bhuj. We had to forcibly bring him to Ahmedabad so that he could appear for his class 10 examination,” Patel said. Heena and her family lived inin BhujAccording to Patel, in 2006, when Sandeep turned 18, he married Heena who claimed to be 26 then. “For two years after the marriage, the couple lived in Bhuj. Later, they moved to Ahmedabad and started living in a bungalow near Gulab Tower in Sola which belonged to Sandeep’s father,” Patel said in his complaint. The application further stated that Heena would ill-treat Sandeep and was always on the lookout tohim. “She harassed my grandson so much that he became mentally disturbed and had to be admitted to ain Ellisbridge. I later took him to another doctor in Kalol. But Heena came there and fought with him. But my grandson was so besotted that he went back to live with her. He would visit the Kalol clinic regularly to undergo treatment. When he returned home on August 27, he found she had left with all the cash, valuables in the house with her. Neighbours said she had come with her brother Bipin on August 21,” Patel said. Soon after he filed an application at Sola police station which was later turned into an FIR.Based on Patel’s application, we got a copy of Heena’s schoolfrom, her alma mater in Bhuj. In the leaving certificate, her birth date was January 9, 1966. This means she was 40 when she married Sandeep,” saidGohil. Suspicious, the cops got a copy of Heena’s passport which showed her birth year as 1980. Realizing that she had produced bogus age documents to obtain the passport, Sola police transferred Patel’s complaint to. GU PSI A G Chauhan said, “Case papers have come to us. We have started the process to take statements, our investigation is on.”