Maharashtra: Sisters of Woman Whose Body Was Chopped Record Statement with Police

GG News Bureau

Thane, 9th June. Two days after a 36-year-old woman’s body parts were found pressure-cooked and roasted inside a flat where she stayed with her live-in partner in Maharashtra’s Thane district, three of her sisters recorded their statements with the police on Friday, an official said.

In connection with the murder, Naya Nagar police arrested victim Saraswati Vaidya’s live-in partner Manoj Sane (56) on Thursday. Sane has been remanded in police custody until June 16.

The grisly details revealed in the case brought up memories of last year’s Shraddha Walkar case.

Amid Sane’s interrogation, police traced Vaidya’s family members and her three sisters recorded their statements, the official said.

While Sane told the police that he was planning to take his life after disposing of Vaidya’s body parts, the motive behind the crime is still not clear, he said.

According to his neighbors, Sane, who worked at a ration shop, kept the woman’s chopped body parts in three buckets in their rented flat in Mira Road (East), a Mumbai suburb, and tried to hide the stench by spraying room fragrance.

The crime was found after neighbors reported a bad odor coming from the flat to the authorities.

According to the police report, Sane not only boiled body parts in a pressure cooker and a utensil after sawing them, but also roasted them and placed them in a bucket and tub.

It is suspected that Vaidya died on June 4, but the incident came to light on June 7.

Neighbors also told police that Sane had started feeding stray dogs for a few days, which he had never done before.