Mumbai Police detain an accused, who confesses to the crime during a sustained interrogation
In a breakthrough in the case where human flesh pieces were found in a drain of a building in Virar, the Arnala police detained a 42-year-old man, identified as Pintoo Sharma. The suspect was brought to Virar from the western suburbs of Mumbai on Tuesday evening. During sustained questioning by the cops, he confessed that he murdered a person, identified as Ganesh Kalodkar and cut the body of the victim into pieces and flushed them down the toilet.
Sharma told the police that he killed Ganesh Kalodkar, 58 by smashing his head following a heated argument. According to the police, Sharma said that he was upset with Kalodkar as the latter had apparently delayed payment of a loan of over Rs. 1 lakh.
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"It was last Wednesday when the duo had a heated argument which later snowballed into a major fight. In the fit of rage, Sharma smashed Ganesh's head on the floor that led to his death," said a police officer.
According to the police, Sharma chopped the victim's body into multiple pieces with hexa blades and flushed them down the toilet of a flat of C-Wing of Bachraj Paradise of Eveshine Avenue, Virar West. The drainage chamber was choked after the gradual accumulation and decomposition of the boneless pieces of human flesh and workers cleaning the septic tank found the remains and informed the police.
The cops privy to the investigation said, "This is rarest of the rare crime and our investigation is at an initial stage. We are yet to interrogate him."
Hundreds of micro-pieces of human flesh were recovered from the blocked drainage of a housing society in Virar West on Tuesday morning. The matter came to light after the residents of Bachraj Paradise of Evershine Avenue complained of a choked drainage system and saw three pieces of human fingers floating in the drain, when it was opened for repair.
A local resident, requesting anonymity, told mid-day that there had been a foul smell in the locality for 10 days. "We initially mistook it for the smell of an animal carcass from the nearby drain but we were shocked to see small pieces of human flesh floating in the drain when it was opened," the resident said.
The medical officer Dr. Rugved R. Dudhat said, "The cause of death was not determined due to the body was severely mutilated into numerous pieces and the samples found has been sent to Kalina laboratory for DNA analysis and identification."
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