The constant milling around of her neighbours, as well as her increasing fear of getting caught, kept matricide accused Rimple Jain confined to her house for four months, even as the stench of the rotting dismembered corpse grew stronger with each passing day, police officials said on Saturday.

Rimple, 25, and her mother Veena, 55, lived in the Ibrahim Kasim Chawl in Lalbaug and on March 14, the Kalachowkie Police arrested Rimple for allegedly murdering Veena and chopping up her body into small pieces using an electric marble cutting machine with a circular blade. Police officials said that the bustling 100-year-old chawl is home to scores of families and is also located right on the main road.