As reported in TOI by  Mayank Soni, on  May 22, 2010 .. read full story

An alert patrol team of Mankhurd police station arrested a resident of Lallubhai Compound as he was fleeing after murdering his neighbour on Thursday night.

The accused, Dhanraj Laxman Das (21), lives on the fifth floor of Shree Sai Society. According to the police, around 11:45 pm on Thursday, the victim Yusuf Hakim Shaikh (20), was shouting at his brother, who was standing at the window of their fourth floor residence. Shaikh was standing in the building compound with his mother.

An officer from Mankhurd police station said, “Das, who had had an argument with Shaikh the day before, was standing at the window of his apartment. He thought that Shaikh was yelling at him and ran down with a knife. Das stabbed Shaikh in front of his mother and fled,” the officer said.

A trustee of ‘Aaisha Education’ was stabbed to death by a youth over property dispute at Govandi in north-east Mumbai today.

As reported in  Sakaaltimes , Friday, May 14, 2010

Police said the deceased Aslam Ibrahim Hasan (40), was running an educational trust just adjoining accused 27-year-old Almaj Geel’s room at Shivaji Nagar in Govandi. Hasan allegedly wanted to take his room for his trust and he used to threaten Almaj and his mother.

At around 1300 hours, when the accused went back home he saw his mother crying. She told him Hasan had approached her and threatened to kill her son if he saw him in the area.In anger, Ajmal stabbed Aslam. after the incident, he went to the police station and surrendered himself. Injured Aslam was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on admission.Police have registered a case of murder and further investigations are in progress, sources added.

As reported by PTI on Sunday, March 28, 2010,
The brother-in-law of a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) corporator has been arrested for allegedly trying to eliminate the latter’s former driver in suburban Chembur, police said.

The accused identified as Ram Sonawane was arrested late last night and was remanded to police custody till March 30, police said.

The police have also charged the corporator Parmeshwar Kadam, representing Ghatkopar area, with attempt to murder as the victim Sachin Gaikwad alleged that the accused tried to kill him at behest of Kadam, who flatly denied the charge and sought detailed inquiry into the matter.

According to police, victim Gaikwad and accused Sonawane had a scuffle following heated argument near a beer bar last night when a police patrolling team nabbed the duo.

“Sonawane was wielding a revolver. We seized the revolver and four bullets. Based on the complaint given by victim, we arrested Sonawane on charges of attempt to murder,” said R Gavit, Senior Inspector at Tilak Nagar police station.

As the victim alleged that Sonawane was sent by Kadam, they named the MNS corporator as wanted accused, said Gavit.

Senior Inspector Gavit said, “Sonawane told us that Gaikwad was maligning the image of Kadam and his family. That’s why he wanted to teach Gaikwad a lesson and went with the revolver.”

Excerpt from Hindustan Times, reported on March 13, 2010: Read Full Article

Mankhurd police nabbed a 32-year-old man on Thursday night while he tried to escape after strangling his wife.
Milton Noor Gazi, was booked for murder. “Beat marshals and some locals spotted him near Mankhurd junction at around 11.30 pm, when he tried to escape in an autorickshaw,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dilip Sawant.
Priya alias Zarina Gazi (25), is survived by two children, a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. Milton, a farmer, lived with Priya in West Bengal, before she quarrelled with him, came to Mumbai, and began working in a Mankhurd bar.
Police said, at 11 pm, Milton entered the house where Priya lived with a waiter from the bar where she worked. “The couple fought for around 15 minutes, then there was silence,” said senior inspector Pascal D’souza, adding that the locals saw Milton running down the lane, holding Priya’s son.

As reported in TOI by S Ahmed Ali, TNN, 10 January 2010,
A 14-year old girl was raped and her body dumped in a Mhada Colony at Vashinaka in Chembur on Saturday. The police suspect the involvement of a few boys from the same building or locality.

According to the police, the victim stepped out of her house around 10 am on Friday to buy shampoo from a nearby grocery store. “When she did not return for 45 minutes, her brother got worried and informed their mother, who rushed back home from work and began searching for her daughter,” said assistant commissioner of police Jalinder Kandagle. “Around 4 pm, the family filed a missing complaint with the RCF police station.”

On Saturday, the girl’s family found a gunny bag dumped inside a vacant flat on the ground floor of their building. They opened the bag and found the girl’s body. The victim’s mouth was covered with a piece of cloth and her hands were tied. The police found strangulation marks on her neck and blood stains on her private parts, indicating that she was raped. The body has been sent for a post-mortem.

Teen found murdered in Mumbai, her body stuffed in gunny bag -
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The body of a 14-year-old girl, who went missing from her Chembur home on Friday morning, was found early on Saturday, stuffed in a gunny bag in a ground floor apartment of the same building she lived in. The victim, Sonali Vasant Bellur, had been murdered, allegedly by unidentified persons. The teenager’s mouth had been gagged with a handkerchief, and her hands were tied behind her back.

Sonali lived with her parents in a fourth floor flat in Pancharatna building (No 12) in MHADA Colony, Vashi Naka, in Chembur. She left her home at around 10am on Friday to buy a shampoo sachet, but never returned. After searching the area, her mother Laxmi, a domestic help, lodged a missing persons complaint the same evening with the RCF Police. Laxmi also informed her brother Arjun Guru, a resident of Ambernath, that Sonali had gone missing and he rushed to Chembur.

Excerpt from DNA , reported by Rishi Banerji , Monday, October 26,: Read Full Article

After 15-days of the brutal murder of Surat-based financier and land broker Rajiv Shah, the Surat police arrested all three prime accused from a hotel on National Highway (NH) 8, on Sunday.

Officials of PCB (Surat) were successful in nabbing them after chasing for hours. The trio has been brought to Surat and they were produced before the court on Sunday evening. The court has given them remand for six days and they will remain in police custody till October 30.

The three accused for Shah’s murder were identified as Mehul Lakhani, Amar Thakkar, and Hiren Kakadia. All the three were arrested by the police from a hotel between Talasari and Bhilad located at NH 8, on early hours of Sunday morning. They were having snacks at a hotel, when police raided the hotel.

“We received information that Mehul, Amar and Hiren are hiding in Mumbai. With the help of Mumbai police we raided two separate flats at Andheri and Chembur, but trio managed to escape from there. We learnt that accused had rented a Maruti Van (MH -04-AH-6776) and were moving towards Daman. We kept track of the vehicle and were able to arrest them,” RV Rabari, inspector of PCB, said.

The police have reasons to believe that the Chembur Dentist’s murder was planned as the killer struck at a time when the dentist used to be alone in her clinic.
Dr. Netra Talathi’s  earlier used to stay in Navi Mumbai and had shifted to Chembur after marriage. Though the police said there was no discord in Talathi’s marriage, they are not ruling out a `love triangle’.
“We are also investigating the love triangle theory as it is possible that someone was attracted to her but we do not want to divulge any details,” said The Navi Mumbai commissioner of police Ramrao Wagh .

As reported in TOI on 13-03-2009

Read earlier coverage of this case on InChembur : Chembur Dentist Found Dead In Her Clinic in Navi Mumbai

Chembur resident, Netra Talati (35), a dentist, was found dead with head injuries in her clinic in Navi Mumbai on Thursday. Police are on the lookout for the man who assists her in the clinic at Koparkhairane. Netra, mother of a nine-year-old girl, was married to Wilfred Maskaran, who works in the marketing department of a private firm.Her body was found around 6 pm in her clinic in Channel Tower, Koparkhairane

Netra used to live in Koparkhairane before her marriage and had been practising at the clinic for around 10 years. There are two other establishments on same floor, Karad Cooperative credit society and a pathology lab, both of which were closed on Thursday.

Netra’s clinic timings were 10.30 am to 12.30 pm and 6.30 pm to 9 pm. “Netra would punctually reach her home in Chembur to pick up her daughter who arrived home at 4.30 pm. Today, when she did not turn up, her neighbours called her on her mobile phone and the clinic landline number,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police R. D. Shinde.

“When they did not get any response, they contacted her aunt Vandana Talati who lives near the clinic and asked her to check.” Added Shinde, “When the aunt came to the clinic, she found Netra dead. She then informed us.” The police said Netra’s husband, who was in Hyderabad for some work, has told them that he had spoken to her at 1 pm last and she seemed fine.

“Netra’s father has come from Pune and her husband too is rushing back. We will be talking to them and other relatives to get more details on her and get clues on the motive for the killing,” said Shinde.

“We are trying to trace the assistant of the clinic, who is not answering his cellphone. We could get some vital information from him. We need to check if he was on leave today.” The police said they would check Netra’s phone details to get more information in the case.

Initial investigations did not reveal anything missing from the clinic. The murder weapon has not been found.