Raj Kumari Baberya 45, (centre) at her residence in Manpada, Dombivli East. Her daughter Shalini, 16 (left) and neighbour Sheela Kadam (right) were the first to know about the incident on Saturday.

Close on the heels of three incidents in Bhiwandi, of women's hair being chopped off, a fresh incident was reported from Dombivli on Saturday morning. At 11.30 am Raj Kumari Baberya (45), resident of Manpada, Dombivli East, was taking a nap in her bedroom, on the fourth floor of Ragai building where she resides with her husband and daugher Shalini (16). Shalini had gone to the terrace to put clothes to dry when she heard her mother's screams from downstairs. "I came rushing down. My mother was sleeping in the bedroom alone and the door was locked by me from the outside. When we went in, no one else was inside. How could it happen?" she said. Her mother had fallen unconscious and remained in that state for over half an hour after the incident had occurred. "I asked her about the attacker. She told me she saw a woman with a pair of scissors cutting her hair. She tried to stop her, but the lady vanished soon after she had chopped off her hair," Shalini added. They informed the Manpada police. The police, however, are yet to register a case. They are still interrogating neighbours and family members to get their head around the matter.