Mumbai : A week after the Chembur police found a woman’s torso dumped at Cherai Lake and later legs in mangrove near Chhetah Camp, the cops claimed to have cracked the murder mystery after arresting a 31-year-old manager of Chembur Gymkhana. The police said that the accused and the woman, a widow, were in a relationship. However, the accused murdered the woman in the night of October 29, after she pressed him for marriage and revealed about their relation to her family.
The police said that the accused identified as Prabhakar Shetty, stayed at the gymkhana’s staff quarters located at Subhash Nagar area in Chembur. The police said that on October 29, the deceased Kanta Shetty had come at his residence, when the duo had an argument over their relationship. Following which he attacked Kanta, with a big kitchen knife and later chopped her body into pieces in his flat’s bathroom.
According to the police the murder was preplanned as the accused had arranged big plastic bags to dispose the body. “Shetty disposed the woman’s torso at Cherai Lake and her arms and legs in a mangrove near Chhetah Camp on same night. Later, he threw the knife in an open drain. We have recovered some limbs of the deceased,” said police.
The Chembur police were suspicious about Shetty after the Sakinaka police called him for questioning in connection with a missing person’s complaint of Kanta registered by her family members. The family had alleged that Shetty had an involvement with Kanta’s disappearance. The police said that the duo knew each other for last two years. Kanta, a widow for last five years stayed with her 14-year-old son at Chandivali area near Sakinaka.
The Sakinaka police when questioned Shetty, he confessed to the crime, which was later informed to their counterparts at Chembur. The Chembur police then connected the dots following which the identity of the female torso was ascertained.
Shetty, was arrested under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information) of the Indian Penal Code and the police have secured his custody for further investigation.
