In a macabre incident, a 24-year-old woman allegedly killed her widowed mother, chopped the latters body into several pieces and hid them in plastic bags and hid the bags cupboard and other places of her home for three-long months before her ghastly crime came to light on Tuesday night.
On Wednesday morning, the Kalachowki Police arrested the accused woman – identified as one Rimple P. Jain -- for the blood curdling murder of her mother Veena Prakash Jain (55) at the Jains first floor residence in Ibrahim Kasam Chawl, Peru Compound at Lalbaug in south-central Mumbai.
Ironically enough, the police uncovered the ghastly killing of Veena Jain late on Tuesday night while they were investigating a missing complaint of her filed by the deceased womans elder brother Sureshkumar Phulchand Porwal. Sureshkumar lodged a complaint with the police after his niece (the accused woman) refused to let his son meet his sister Veena. Within an hour of the registration of the offence, a police landed at Jains residence only to sense a stench emanating from inside the house. After initial resistance, the accused woman let the police inside her home.
Before long, the investigators found big and small pieces of Veenas body, wrapped in plastic bags and stored in the cupboard and other places inside Jains home.
Confirming the development, Assistant Commissioner of Police Pravin Munde said: During the search of Jains home, our team found the body pieces stuffed in plastic bags. There was a stench all over the place.
The pieces of the body were in an advanced state of decomposition. We immediately summoned the Forensic Team to investigate the full home and sent the victims body to KEM Hospital for an autopsy. The accused daughter Rimple was placed under arrest immediately afterwards. While the motive behind the gruesome crime has not been established yet, the murder is believed to have been committed on November 26, 2022.
The body pieces were in an advanced state of decomposition, there was a deathly stink in the entire home, maggots and insects crawling around the place… We immediately summoned the Forensic Team to investigate the full home and sent the victims body to KEM Hospital for an autopsy, said an official, who is part of the probe team.
After Rimples arrest on Wednesday morning, the police team recovered an electric marble cutter, a sickle and a knife -- used to kill, chop and carve the womans body into pieces. What has come as a surprise is that the sensational crime – in which Rimple dismembered the body of her mother – had not been noticed by people in the most-congested Lalbaug area of south-central Mumbai.
Sureshkumar told the police that despite several attempts and visits, he could not meet his younger sister for the past three months. Every time I tried to meet my sister, my niece Rimple made excuses like she has gone out or she is resting, he said.
The Jains have been living at Lalbaug since 2005. Late Veena and Rimple had moved to Lalbaug from Virar in the neighbouring Palghar district 16 years ago, after the death of the family head Prakash Jain. Veenas brother Sureshkumar used to support her with monthly financial help, said an official. Having claimed that her mother suffered a fall, Rimple told the police that after her mothers fall , she brought the former home where she died.
During the questioning, the accused woman made several contradictory statements arousing suspicion among the investigators which eventually led to her arrest.
There is also speculation whether the accused woman is of a disturbed mind, particularly since she chose to keep everyone in the dark about her mothers killing and chose to live with her body parts scattered in their home for so long.
