Pune: Police of Sinhagad on Wednesday claimed to have solved the murder of the 70-year-old Shalini Sonangane in his flat in Hingne Khurd on October 30 with detention of two small boys, aged 16 and 14 years, and the recovery of the property of stolen.
Worth RS1.6 Lakh.
“Children, grade 11 and 7 students, claimed to the murder and led our team to the place behind the apartment building where they hidden Rs 93,000 and RS67,500 ornaments were stolen from the flat,” Senior Inspector Devidas Ghevare from Sinhagad Road Police Tell the Toi.
Ghevare said, “The boys lived in the neighborhood and knew the woman, they, planned crime almost two months after watching a popular TV series and using surgical gloves so they did not leave fingerprints.” Ghevare said, “We will produce two boys before the teen justice board for their detention.
One of the boys belongs to the family in the dry snack business.
Another boy is the son of a hospital employee.
The children believe that Sonangana Make a lot of money and ornaments at home.
They are looking for opportunities to execute their plots, but the elderly women rarely leave their homes.
“Ghevare said,” The two boys finally executed their plans around 1.30 a night on October 30 when Sonangana called them To the flat to install the diwali lantern.
They watched the television with him for some time before suddenly attacked him.
They pushed it hard to the wall, which resulted in a head injury, and strangled him with a pillow after he fell.
Then, they collected cash and ornaments from the closet The bedroom and go after opening the main door from the outside.
“The murder was Te It was leaving the police flummox because there were no signs forced into the flat, there was no CCTV footage from around to build who was in and out of the flat during the day, and no eyewitnesses.
Sonange’s son told the police that cash and ornaments worth RS1.74 Lakh were stolen from the bedroom cabinet.
What made the police interested was the fact that the attacker did not touch the ornaments used by Sonange, also did not collect cash more than RS5,000 in a small living room closet or silver ornaments at the altar.
The leader finally came on Tuesday when Portable Ujjav Mokashi learned about the two boys who were nervous since the police began to do many of their localities.
Some children at the nearest temple also told Mokashi that on October 30 afternoon, they had planned to visit the ‘Pani Puri’ warung but the two boys were happy to give reasons.
Police further knew that one of these children was used to steal goods from his own home.
“Our team arrested the two boys to be questioned.
After several cold responses to those questions, they finally spilled nuts and told how they executed the theft-cummurder,” Ghevare said.
“The children led the researchers to a place where they had kept the stolen property hidden under the floor tiles.”