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Police in India have arrested a man who allegedly killed his lover in their home, chopped her body into several pieces and cooked it in a pressure cooker.
The incident came to light after a neighbor noticed a foul-smelling stench emanating from Manoj Sane’s seventh-floor apartment in Mumbai’s Mira Road and alerted police on Wednesday.
When police arrived and broke down the door of the flat, they found body parts in several buckets and other parts crushed in a blender and cooked in a pressure cooker.
Police said the body parts belonged to Sane’s lover, Mrs. Saraswati Vaidya, 32, who they believed had been killed earlier this week.
“The suspect killed his live-in partner and chopped her into pieces with a tree cutter. The body parts have been sent to JJ Hospital for further examination,” said Mumbai Deputy Police Commissioner Jayant Bajbale.
Sane, 56, was arrested on Wednesday and will be held in remand until June 16.
Neighbors told the media that the couple mostly kept to themselves and they did not hear them arguing.
Police said Sane boiled pieces of his partner’s body to get rid of any foul odor and placed them in plastic bags to throw away later.
Indian media reported that when questioned, Sane claimed that Ms. Vaidya, who grew up in an orphanage, committed suicide by consuming poison.
Driven by fears that he could be charged with complicity in her suicide, he said he tried to dispose of her body by dismembering it.
“He also told the police that he had decided to end his life afterwards and has no regrets,” reports ANI news agency.
The Free Press Journal reported that he also claimed to be HIV positive and denied any physical relationship with Ms. Vaidya, claiming that she was like a daughter to him instead.
Police are investigating his claims.
