Late one evening around 5 a.m. on a Friday morning, the lifeless body of 58-year-old Kishore Pednekar lay on the road adjacent to Topiwala Mansion in Jawahar Nagar.
Mumbai:
A man was found murdered on a road in front of his residence in Goregaon, Mumbai. Cries to his wife remained unanswered, and his flat’s door was bolted; the key to the house was around his neck as a necklace. But what followed were more of the grim events. The man’s wife had been poisoned, and therefore she was inside the flat, dead.
The chilling string of incidents came to the fore on early Friday morning when deceased 58-year-old Kishore Pednekar’s body was found on the street in front of Topiwala Mansion in the Jawahar Nagar area.
The man identified as Kishore, who used to work for a company dealing in gym equipment, had committed suicide by jumping off the building. The members of the village who got to know about him found his dead body and informed the police.
Kishore was immediately taken to the nearest hospital. Sadly, he was accepted dead on arrival, they said, as partially quoted above: they must be able to get out and save their own lives when surrounded thus foolishly and unnecessarily by such a rabble in that sinister and dangerous place—words that suggest that he died while attempting to escape the horde.
When officials tried to inform Kishore’s wife Rajshree of the man’s death, they had no luck as phone calls to the woman went to voicemail repeatedly.
Police were informed, and they arrived at the scene to find the door to the flat securely locked from within. The two keys that were suspended around his neck were noticed by them then. Using these keys, the police got into the flat, and the situation there was even worse than before.
Rajshree, aged 57, a therapist, was strangled to death in the hall of the flat. She had been strangled and, like the husband, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The prima facie conclusion was that Kishore had poisoned his wife before turning the gun on himself, the police said.
