Police say the accused Rohit has been taken into custody and will be charged with murder.
A 20-year-old man beat his ex-girlfriend to death with a spanner on a busy road near Mumbai this morning, surrounded by a crowd that did nothing to stop him. Rohit Yadav, suspecting that his ex Aarti Yadav had moved on to a new relationship, chased her with the spanner and rained blows on her until she fell dead, reveals a chilling CCTV video from Vasai.
Police say the incident took place at around 8:30 am in Vasai's East Chinchpada area when Aarti Yadav was heading to work.
Extremely disturbing security footage shows Aarti walking on a road full of pedestrians when Rohit Yadav, runs up behind her and strikes her on the head with a spanner. The force of the blow makes her drop to the ground. As she attempts to lift her head, her ex strikes her 15 times on the head, mercilessly hitting her until her body goes limp.
A man is seen trying to stop Rohit, who pushes him away and threatens him with the spanner. The man backs off, and no one else attempts to stop the frenzied attack.
In another video recorded by an onlooker, Rohit is seen standing over the woman's body, holding the spanner. He bends down to grab her face and begins talking to the corpse. "Why did you do this to me, why did you do this?" he screams in Hindi, before striking her once more. He then tosses aside the bloodied spanner and walks off into the crowd.
Police say Rohit Yadav has been arrested and will be charged with murder. He had been upset since Aarti had ended their relationship and suspected that she had found someone else, they added.
Police said that Aarti and Rohit lived in the same neighbourhood in Nalla Sopara and they had a fight on the road before he attacked her.
The couple had been in a relationship for the last six years, a police official said.
A team from the nearby Valiv police rushed to the spot and sent the body for a post-mortem. "The accused attacked the woman with an industrial spanner, and there were 18 wounds on her body," senior inspector Jairaj Ranawre of Valiv police told news agency PTI.