INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
MUMBAI: Saraswati Vaidya, 34, who grew up in an orphanage in Ahmednagar, was married to Manoj Sane, 56, who is accused of killing her in
their Mira Road flat and chopping the body into small pieces with a chainsaw, her three elder sisters told the police on Friday
They had married in a temple about eight years ago.The police said DNA samples would be collected from the sisters to be matched with that
He is believed to have murdered her on June 4, chopped the body and boiled some of the pieces in a pressure cooker and roasted some others
in his kitchen to help dispose of it till the stench gave him away and he was arrested on June 7
Sane has claimed that Vaidya had died by poisoning when he was away on June 3 and he panicked and tried to dispose of the body.After reading
about the murder, the sisters, who stay in Mumbai, approached the cops
In their statements, they said their youngest sister and Sane married in a temple and initially lived in Borivli.The sisters said they had
visited Sane and Vaidya when the couple lived in Borivli, but had not been to their Mira Road home
Sane had rented flat 704 in Geeta Akashdeep building three years ago
Though the couple did not interact much with neighbours, they believed the couple to be husband-wife
(west).04:56Mira Road murder case: 'Killer' Manoj Sane chopped Saraswati Vaidya's body parts, pressure-cooked; Police recovered chainsaw,
tile cutter machineThe sisters told the police that due to their age difference, Vaidya would often tell people that Sane was her maternal
Vaidya had visited her orphanage, Jankibai Apte Balikashram, a few years ago to get a certificate of her stay there
The body parts are in J J hospital for forensic examination
from a hardware store in Bhayander (East) on June 4, said the police
He is yet to be questioned
There is no clarity on the motive behind the murder
The police are not ruling out domestic violence as assault marks were found on portions of the limbs seized by the cops
He claimed to be suffering from a life-threatening illness, but no medical documents have been found from his flat
He told the investigators that he planned to commit suicide after disposing of the body parts
He is suspected to have carried some of the body parts in a backpack before dumping them
They exact spots are still not known.With inputs from Abhilash Botekar in Nashik
