It is one struggle after the other for 63-year-old Roque D’Souza, who was lodged in jail since 2017 for allegedly murdering his wife Violet. He was acquitted by the Bombay High Court and released from jail on Tuesday. But, when he returned to his bungalow in Kalina, he found it had been  taken over by the land mafia and he now has no place to go to. D’Souza said he called Vakola police station around 12:30 am, seeking help, but instead he was detained at the police station and released the next morning, and no case was filed. 

‘Forced to hand over keys’

D’Souza’s bungalow was taken over soon after his arrest in 2017. D'Souza and his sister-in-law Jacinta Mascerenhas, 59, alleged that ACP Kailash Avhad, who was posted as senior inspector of Vakola police at the time, forced her to handover keys of the Bungalow to D’Souza’s brother Joseph in front of Prem Chandran and Abid Ali Mushtaque Tanaji.