Mumbai woman who chopped mom into pieces made neighbours believe she was 'alive' in Kanpur
Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 Mar, 2023 10:07 AM
Mumbai, March 20 (IANS) The Mumbai woman, Rimple Jain - who was arrested for chopping her widowed mother Veena Jain's body into pieces - created an impression for nearly three months that she was 'alive' and had gone for treatment to her native place Kanpur, official sources said.
This and other aspects came out during her ongoing custodial investigations by the team probing the sensational case which came to light last Tuesday (March 14) stunning Mumbaikars.
Rimple - whose relations with her mother were strained - has stuck to her earlier version that she did not kill Veena, but merely chopped off her body into pieces and stored them in plastic bags in a cupboard at home.
She has claimed to the police investigators that her mother died under natural circumstances, allegedly due to a fall on December 27. But since she was scared of getting the blame for it, she resorted to a web of lies and deceit to fool the relatives and the neighbours.
The Ibrahim Kasam Chawl, where the body parts were discovered after the victim's brother Sureshchandra Phulchand Porwal complained to Kalachowki Police, is situated adjacent to main road in a thickly populated residential-cum-commercial locality of south-central Mumbai, with public movement almost round-the-clock.
This made it difficult for her to dispose of her mother's body parts without arousing doubts among their relatives or the neighbourhood.
Rimple also revealed she went and bought an electric marble-cutter from a nearby hardware shop - where a police team took her last week to verify her claim - and started cutting Veena's body the very next day.
When some people around casually inquired after her mother, Rimple told them that "she has gone to Kanpur for medical treatment," and the matter rested, even as she made frantic efforts to dispose of Veena's body parts.
Hoping to misguide the snoopy neighbourhood, Rimple would walk up and down the common corridor, pretending to speak to her 'mom' on the mobile, asking her loudly "how are you", "how is the treatment going on," etc. so the neighbours could hear the 'conversation'.
The police are attempting to ascertain the exact motives why she did not inform the family, relatives or neighbours of Veena's death and resorted to a macabre act of cutting, chopping and preserving her body parts at home till they had started decomposing badly.
To ward off the stench, she used to spray a lot of room fresheners and perfumes at home, but despite all her attempts to hide it, the whole crime finally erupted in the open last Tuesday.
Special public prosecutor (SPP) Amit Prasad argued the charges against Poonawala. It was submitted that the accused is a trained chef from Taj Hotel and is aware of preserving the flesh. Poonawala had also ordered dry ice, agarbatti etc. after killing Shraddha Walker, the police said.
Carrying placards, father Balkaur Singh and mother Charan Kaur told the media it has been almost a year of the crime occurrence and the main culprits have not been arrested.They demanded that the case should be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as crucial witnesses "are being eliminated and nothing is going in their favour."
The accused were identified as Mohd. Danish (33) and Danish alias Raja (30), both residents of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh. Police have also recovered five high end luxury cars and SUVs from the possession of the accused.
The cause of the provocation is yet to be ascertained, an official told IANS, adding the situation is under control. Videos of the ruckus were viral on the social media. Many parked vehicles and a nearby police station was pelted on with stones.
The court had, on March 4, extended Sisodia's CBI custody for two days and listed his bail plea for March 10 and in the last two days, the CBI questioned him with key witnesses -- former excise commissioner Arva Gopi Krishna and former excise department secretary C. Arvind -- in this case, who recorded their statements in front of a magistrate.
A police official said that the two men, wearing masks, entered the bank branch at around 9.45 a.m. when only three employees were present there, and threatened the staff with a pistol. They forced the staff to open the vault where Rs 10 lakh was kept and fled with the money by 10.30 am.
