Juhu tutor kills Mum, 74, dumps body in Matheran
The two got into an argument over property, say police
MUMBAI: A 40-year-old tutor who allegedly killed his mother and then disposed of her body in a secluded gorge near Matheran, was arrested by the Juhu police on Wednesday.
At the time of going to print, the body of 74-year-old Beena Kapoor had been found on the Neral-matheran road but not yet retrieved from the spot as it’s a deep gorge.
According to the police, Kapoor and her son Sachin, 40, who is unmarried and lived with her, got into a heated altercation over property. As tempers rose, Sachin Kapoor beat her with a baseball bat, killing her on the spot. After the alleged murder he and the domestic help Chotu Mandal bundled the body in their car and dumped it in a forested area in Raigad district. Mandal has also been arrested.
Police say Sachin Kapoor had taught mathematics in two prominent schools in the western suburbs before moving to taking private tuitions. On Tuesday morning, between 6 and 7 am, mother and son, residents of Kalpataru Solitaire at Gulmohar
Road, Juhu, had a massive row. Later, at around 9 am, they carried her bundled up body to the car when they were stopped by the building’s security guard who asked Kapoor and Mandal what they were carrying. They informed him that they were shifting some household good to another flat.
The murder came to light after Beena Kapoor’s elder son Nevin, who lives in the US, rang his mother and found her phone going unanswered. He then called his younger brother and received no response either. At around 10.30 am on Tuesday, Nevin called the building watchman hoping to get some information but he also could not take his call. Nevin, by now extremely anxious, called Juhu police station and requested them to go and check on his family. A team of Juhu police reached the building.
NEW DELHI: Loans and mortgages will get more expensive with the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announcing a fifth consecutive interest rate hike on Wednesday, of 0.35 percentage points, taking the policy rate to 6.25%, the highest since March 2019.
RBI has taken up the policy rate by 2.25 percentage points since May, and the tone and tenor of its statement, as also the vote break-up – one of the six members of MPC voted against a rate hike; and two voted against the continued focus on “withdrawal of accommodation to ensure that inflation remains within the target...” – suggest that there could be another rate increase in February.
To be sure, as analysts point out, much will depend on global factors including the actions of the US Federal Reserve (it has already signalled smaller rate hikes).
On growth, even though the MPC has made a downward revision to its 2022-23 GDP forecast – it now stands at 6.8% compared to 7% in the September resolution – Governor Shaktik