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Mona’s battle for life ends

Staff Reporter

The fashion designer who was set afire two months ago dies in hospital

Relatives seek CBI probe into the incident
Police are now awaiting the forensic report

NEW DELHI: Mona Suri, the fashion designer who was set afire allegedly by two men outside her house in the upmarket Greater Kailash Part-II over two months ago, died due to a multiple-organ failure at Safdarjung Hospital here on Saturday. The police are yet to make a breakthrough in the case.

Doctors at the hospital had put 36-year-old Mona on life-support system on Thursday after her condition deteriorated.

Her kidneys, lungs and other vital organs stopped functioning on Saturday and she was declared dead late at night.

Dissatisfied with the pace of investigations by the police, her bereaving relatives have demanded a CBI probe into the incident as they are yet to crack the case.

Mona married Naveen Suri, who works with a Gurgaon-based travel and tour agency, in 1995 and they have two daughters.

She was admitted to hospital with 80 per cent burns allegedly after two unidentified assailants, who came on a motorcycle, poured some inflammable liquid on her and set her afire around 8 p.m. on August 11. Naveen was then on an official trip to Goa.

In her statement to the police, Mona had accused a woman colleague of Naveen -- of having masterminded the attack on her.

However, the woman’s father alleged that Mona had been warning her to stay away from her husband.

On the basis of Mona’s statement, the police registered a case of causing grievous hurt and criminal conspiracy.

They then questioned Naveen, his woman colleague and also another colleague of his to ferret out the truth. Investigations indicated that Naveen had been maintaining close relationship with his woman colleague.

Suspecting their involvement, the police checked their movements around the time of the incident.

Their phone records were also examined, but nothing came of it.

The interrogation of another colleague of Naveen and friend also did not lead to any breakthrough.

The police are now awaiting the forensic report, on the basis of which they will take further action in the case.

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