Pics by Rons Bantwal, Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai
With Inputs from PTI

Mumbai, Apr 12: A 29-year-old man allegedly attempted suicide by cutting his wrist in the Bombay High Court premises this morning, the police said.

Vikas Kumar Verma slashed his wrist outside the court of Justices Ranjana Desai and D B Bhosle after his wife deposed against him in a writ petition filed by her parents, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Brijech Singh told PTI here.

The man, who hails from Delhi, was currently staying in Pune for some time and had married a girl without her parents' consent.

Her parents had filed a writ petition against him and his parents, he said.

The incident occurred while the writ petition was being heard in the court.

Verma was rushed to the nearby GT Hospital.

Inputs from Mid Day:

Khushboo Chouhan (18), who had filed an affidavit in the high court last month, asking to be married to Vikaskumar Verma (31), now says she has never been in love with Verma.

The man tried to commit suicide in the Bombay High Court courtroom yesterday.

“Being residents of defence colony in New Delhi, we knew each other for the last five years till my father was transferred to Pune in October 2006. But I have never been in love with Vikas,” she said.

Dr P Jadhav, from G T Hospital, who treated Verma, said the injuries were not serious. “Nobody dies of injuries that are just two inches in width,” he said.

Khushboo said she had filed the affidavit under emotional pressure. The couple had eloped on January 15 from Pune.

Khushboo’s father R S Chouhan and Vikas’s father Rameshchandra Verma are Indian Air Force employees.

Rameshchandra had approached the HC to quash the kidnapping case filed against him by R S Chouhan at Pune in February. He was at the HC for the petition’s hearing yesterday.