The police have filed the chargesheet in the Mira Road murder case, in which a woman's body parts were boiled in a pressure cooker and roasted by her live-in partner in their rented apartment
The accused was detained after body parts were found in his Mira Road flat. (File Pic/Hanif Patel)
The police have filed the chargesheet in the Mira Road murder case were a woman's body parts were boiled in a pressure cooker and roasted by her live-in partner in their rented apartment.
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The Mira-Bhayandar Vasai-Virar police submitted the chargesheet in a magistrate's court in Thane on September 5.
According to the advocate Atul Saroj, counsel for the 56-year-old accused Manoj Sane said, the court will frame charges against the accused in due course after which the hearing in the case will commence. The contents of the chargesheet were immediately not known.
The Mira Road murder case came to light in the first week of June after neighbours alerted the police about a foul odour coming from a flat where Sane and his live-in partner Saraswati Vaidya (34) lived in Naya Nagar area in Thane district.
After breaking the door open, the police were stunned to discover Vaidya's body parts.
According to the police, when they entered the accused’s Mira Road flat, they found chunks of human flesh in hot water in a bloodstained kitchen.
Speaking to mid-day, the police had stated that the accused had been boiling the remains in a pressure cooker and feeding them to stray dogs.
According to the police, in police custody, Sane claimed his partner had committed suicide and, fearing arrest, he decided to dismember the body.
As per the FIR, Sane killed the woman on June 4, chopped her body with a chainsaw and pressure-cooked and roasted a few pieces in his attempt to get rid of them.
Sane has been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence).
The accused was arrested on June 8 and produced in court the same day. Sane revealed to the cops that he had been in a relationship with the deceased for 13 years and they were living together in the same flat for five years.
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