Juhu murder: Body found; son, help get 11-day police custody | Mumbai News – Times of India

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MUMBAI: After a five-hour search into the 30-foot-deep valley located off Neral-Matheran Road in Raigad district, Juhu police recovered 74-year-old Veena Kapur’s body that had been allegedly dumped by her son Sachin (43) the same day. Sachin allegedly killed his mother on Tuesday with a baseball bat following an argument early on Tuesday.

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Sachin and his domestic help, Lalukumar Mandal (25), were produced before the Andheri court on Thursday and sent to 11 days of police custody till December 19. Sachin pleaded with the magistrate to free Mandal, saying he had no role in the killing. Mandal has been accused of helping dispose of the body.
A cop said Sachin hit his mother at least 40 times with the baseball bat, the post-mortem report has stated. He drove out alone with the body at 9.30am on Tuesday and reached Panvel, where his location was tracked. Mandal travelled separately by train to Panvel around 12.30pm to look for a spot to dump the body.
Juhu police said Sachin, a post-graduate in mathematics who taught in an international school before losing his job three years ago, allegedly bundled her body in a carton with Mandal’s help and used a wheelchair to take it down the building lift and kept the box in his car to speed away; this was captured in the building’s CCTV cameras.
A police source told TOI: “It does not seem like an offence in a fit of rage because Sachin unplugged at least 13 CCTVs and DVRs (digital video recorders) installed in the victim’s flat. They have been missing for the past few days. He dumped these so that his actions will not get recorded.” Cops are on a hunt to retrieve the mobile phones of Sachin and his mother. They are searching for the CCTVs and the baseball bat. Cops have retrieved the building CCTV that captured Sachin leaving with a carton. “The guard on duty that day asked Sachin what was in it. He said it was waste,” another guard told TOI.
Sachin told the magistrate he would himself argue the case on Thursday and get his own lawyer. He told the magistrate: “It is my mother who has been harassing me and not me. For the last four years, she has been trying to provoke me and even filed a case against me in the Bombay high court. I kept quiet for a long time. But I lost my composure finally and assaulted her.”
The crime came to light after the victim’s elder son, Nevin, who is in the US, failing to get in touch with her, told a building guard to file a missing complaint. Police inspector Sanjay Pawar and team tried to find her through her phone location, said DCP (Zone IX) Anil Paraskar. A suo motu FIR was filed and the DCP supervised Juhu senior inspector Ajitkumar Vartak who directed a team of inspector Sanjay Pawar, assistant inspector Vijay Dhotre and others to take Sachin and Mandal to Neral-Matheran Road late Wednesday. “Personnel from my police station and local rescue team accompanied Juhu cops,” said Matheran police inspector Rajendra Tendulkar.

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