"He Was Shivering, Eyes Red": When Neighbour Saw Mumbai Murder Accused
NDTV
The neighbour gave details of how Manoj Sane was caught on Wednesday evening, and how he nearly managed to give police the slip.
A man wearing a helmet and a mask, with only his bloodshot eyes visible - this was the sight that greeted a neighbour in his first-ever interaction with Manoj Sane, the man accused of murdering 32-year-old Saraswati Vaidya and chopping up her body in Mumbai.
In an interview with NDTV, Somesh Srivastava - the neighbour who noticed the smell, confronted 56-year-old Sane and alerted the police - gave details of how Sane was caught on Wednesday evening. He spoke of how the police ensured everything looked normal so that Sane would not be spooked when he came back to the society in Mira Road's Geeta Nagar, and how Sane nearly managed to give them the slip despite this.
"We first noticed the smell on Monday. We thought that a rat must have died somewhere in the society and ignored it," Mr Srivastava told NDTV
He said that the stench was unbearable when he came home for lunch on Wednesday. "I suspected something was amiss. If an animal had died in someone's house, they would have noticed and cleaned it in three days," Mr Srivastava said.
