A 45-year-old woman was found dead at her Sion residence on December 13, prompting the police to arrest her brother-in-law on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after the daughter of the deceased woman blamed the man for not saving her mother, who was present in the same room at the time of the incident.

Police said the family comprising the deceased woman, her 25-year-old daughter, 47-year-old father, and another 30-year-old man — her father’s aunt’s son — lived in a single-room house in Pratiksha Nagar, Sion. The daughter referred to the accused as ‘chacha’ (uncle).