Man arrested for chopping up, boiling parts of partner in Mumbai's Mira Road - Latest updates
2 min read 08 Jun 2023, 06:37 PM ISTA man in Maharashtra's Thane district was arrested after the chopped body parts of his live-in partner were found in their flat. The body was decomposed and cut into several pieces, with claims of the suspect boiling and feeding the parts to dogs.
PremiumA 56-year-old man was arrested this week after the chopped body parts of his live-in partner were recovered from a flat in Maharashtra's Thane district. Police were alerted by local residents on Wednesday after a foul smell began emanating from the flat the duo had lived in for three years. A team was rushed to the spot and found the decomposed body of Saraswati Vaidya.
Officials said that the had been cut into several pieces. While the police indicate that Manoj Sane had boiled his partner's body and fed the parts to dogs, claims about suicide have also emerged.
Here are the latest updates:
- The man was arrested on murder charges on Wednesday and told interrogators that he had boiled some parts of her body after chopping it and fed them to the stray dogs.
- According to a Hindustan Times report, the police had found Vaidya's decomposed remains in buckets and bowls at the apartment.
- “We found both feet of the victim in the kitchen which he was about to boil," HT quoted a police officer as adding.
- The police suspect that Sane murdered Vaidya three to four days ago.
- The accused however insists that his partner had consumed poison on June 4. He told the police had he had feared that he would be booked for abetment to suicide and hence decided to chop the body in pieces and dispose of it.
- A team of forensic experts arrived at the crime scene on Thursday afternoon.
(With inputs from agencies)
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