A 56-year-old man was arrested Wednesday evening for allegedly killing his live-in partner and chopping her body into pieces at his rented apartment on Mumbai’s Mira Road. According to a police officer from Nayanagar Police Station, decomposing body parts discovered in his home raised suspicions that the murder may have occurred two to three days earlier. The officer added, “It appears the accused had been living with the body parts all these days.”
The accused – identified as Manoj Sane – was staying with Saraswati Vaidya, 32, at an apartment building in Geeta Nagar Phase 7 for the past three years. On Wednesday at around 7 o’clock, the Nayanagar PS got a call from locals who were complaining about the smell coming from the couple’s flat. The cops discovered the woman’s body parts when they arrived at the building and went inside the flat.
Sane was brought into arrest right away. The murder’s purpose and method of execution are being investigated after Sane was detained, according to Zone 1 Deputy Commissioner of Police Jayant Bajbale.
According to Bajbale, “We think Sane cut the woman’s body into pieces to make it simpler for him to dispose of them.”
On Monday morning, when members of the other three flats — 701, 702, and 703 — stepped out, they complained of some stench. On Tuesday, it got stronger.“We three families have been very close. Sane and Vaidya rarely interacted with us. So while we cleaned our homes, we did not tell the couple about it,” Anu Srivastava, Sane’s neighbor at flat 703, was quoted as saying.
As the neighbors continued their scanning, they could not find the source of the stench. By Wednesday morning, the smell just became intolerable. The report stated that the most affected was flat 701 belonging to Niraj Srivastava. “It became clear the smell was coming from flat 704,” Srivastava’s family quoted.
The smell of the flat made the officers vomit, and they were horrified to see body parts and blood in buckets and plastic bags in the kitchen.
The fact that Sane had recently been observed feeding strays, something he had never done before. Police, however, asserted on Thursday that the theory is unfounded.
DCP Jayant Bajbale had on Thursday revealed that Manoj Sane claimed to have been “influenced” by Shraddha Walkar‘s murder and got ideas from the case. Sane slept in one of the two bedrooms while the body parts lay in the kitchen and the other bedroom. Police said that they may have fought over financial issues as the accused too confessed to incidents of domestic violence. The apartment where the accused and the victim stayed belongs to Sonam Builders and had been given on rent for the first time.
