City police have achieved little besides recording statements of suspects

The city was rocked recently by some cases of crime that happened almost back to back. If the sensational shootout at Paldi, rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl at Bapunagar, gruesome murder of city-based physician in the outskirts of the city, a daring dacoity in an angadia firm besides a host of thefts and break-ins that are almost a regular occurrence have shocked citizens, their days of trauma aren't yet over, thanks to our city police's inability to solve the cases and catch the culprits.

Death of kin, illness and depression push Santa Cruz resident over the edge

A 64-year-old woman committed suicide by jumping off her building terrace on Tuesday morning in Santa Cruz west. According to the police, Hansaben Chandrakant Parekh was suffering from depression after the deaths of her husband and son.

Parekh, a resident of Ganga Nivas building in Khotwadi in Santa Cruz, lived with her daughter-in-law Mamta. On Tuesday, at around 11.30 am when Mamta went to a nearby bank to withdraw money, Parekh climbed up to the terrace of their four-storey building and leapt off. Parekh suffered severe head injuries and was declared dead before arrival when rushed to the Cooper Hospital.

She met an MBA on Net; falling in love sent him nude photos... then got blackmailed

An unsuspecting woman doctor fell prey to the online charms of an MBA professional. He proposed, she accepted... Then the love story went awry as the man tried to blackmail the woman with her semi-nude photographs.

The MBA, who called himself Raj — an associate vice president of an MNC in Pune, was nabbed by the Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of Mumbai Police on Tuesday. Charges of rape, cheating and molestation were slapped on him, and he was remanded in police custody till March 9.

Vashi cops have launched a manhunt to nab a Mumbra-based Computer Engineer Yunus for allegedly duping city residents of Rs 48,000. The accused had created a fake net banking website of Axis Bank and sent messages to many account holders mentioning that their respective account has some problem. He mentioned another link in the message asking the customers to click the link and check the problem of the account.

Villagers suspect woman of sacrificing girl for black magic, beat her to death

The Dahanu Road police arrested five persons on Monday for allegedly killing a woman, Gangubai Wartha, 45, a resident of Kankarali Pada, Dahanu, suspecting her role in the supposed human sacrifice of a nine-year-old girl of the village six months ago.

The city police investigating the BPO employee murder case on Tuesday said they have collected concrete clues, which will lead them to the accused persons.

Umesh Krishnan (27), a senior executive of Infosys Pvt Ltd, was smothered to death on Monday at his house in Ramaswamypalya in Banaswadi.

Assistant police commissioner N Narasimhaiah said, “We have clues that will lead us to the accused. We are working towards it and hope to solve the case soon’’.

Police are still maintaining that it is a murder for gain. Umesh was murdered by four unknown people in the presence of his wife Honey Mary, who was injured. Since she is away in Erode, where Umesh’s body was cremated, police have not been able to get more information from her.