He looked tense and smoked non-stop until I fixed the chain saw,” said Fahim, an employee of Karthika Enterprises in Bhayandar East from where the 56-year-old Mira Road resident bought a chainsaw to dismember his live-in partner’s body. He had returned to the hardware shop two days later, as it broke while chopping her body, cops said.
 
According to the police, the accused purchased a chainsaw of the Dongcheng brand from Karthika Enterprises at Anjali Estate in Bhayandar East for Rs 4,000. The machine is ideally used by the logging industry to cut huge trees. Police said that he also used the tile cutting machine to cut the bones.

mid-day spoke to Fahim, an employee of the hardware shop who said the electric chainsaw was sold to the accused on June 4. “Two days later, he returned with the machine. The chain had broken and come off the blade completely. When I asked him how the chainsaw broke, he said it happened while cutting a tree. I was surprised, because it’s a new machine that is difficult to break. I told him that the repair will take some time, but he insisted on staying at the shop until it was fixed,” he added.