Woman shot dead for not serving breakfast

THANE: A 76-year-old Rabodi resident allegedly shot his 42-year-old daughter-in-law on Thursday morning at 11.30am for not being served breakfast. The cops are now searching for the accused, identified as Kashinath Patil, who fled the scene.

The victim, Seema Rajendra Patil, 42, mother of a 17-year-old girl was shot in her stomach and died on Friday morning at hospital.

Sources say that the two daughters-in-law would always serve him breakfast, lunch, and dinner on time but Patil would tell otherwise to the neighbours in the society. He also accused his daughters-in-law for not taking care of him.

According to the statement given by the other daughter-inlaw, the deceased- Seema Patil was angry at her father-in-law for spreading false information about them and decided not to serve him breakfast on Thursday morning. Fuming with anger over this, Kashinath Patil, called some relatives and asked them to inform his daughter-inlaw to give him breakfast.

Seema on the other hand confronted Kashinath for spreading false information about them, they had a heated argument over the issue. Senior police inspector, S Ghatekar informed, “Kashinath used to have fights with the family members, he fired a shot with his licensed weapon Webley & Scott and fled from the spot. All family members who were there at home immediately took the victim to a nearby private hospital but during the treatment, she was declared dead on Friday morning. We have recovered the weapon from the house. We have also formed two teams to nab him and registered a case of murder against the accused.”