Pune: Inspired by ‘CID’ TV serial Two Minor Boys Murder Elderly Woman For Cash and Jewellery
Vivek Patil
Pune, 3rd November 2021: Two boys aged 14 and 16 years have been detained by Pune city police for allegedly killing a 70-year-old woman for money and jewellery. Police said that they were inspired by television serial ‘CID’ and had been planning the crime for the last two months. Stolen cash and ornaments worth Rs 1.6 lakh have been recovered from their possession.
The deceased has been identified as Shalini Baban Sonawane (70), a resident of Sayali Heights building in Hingne Khurd.
On October 30, Pune Police Control Room received information that a flat was burglarized and an old woman was lying injured and unconscious in her flat.
Senior Police Inspector Devidas Gheware, in-charge of Sinhgad road police station rushed to the spot alongwith Inspector (Crime) Pramod Waghmare, and the Detection Branch (DB) team.
Inspector Gheware said that the woman was lying unconscious and the cupboards in the house were open and gold ornaments and cash were found stolen from those cupboards. The woman had died.
Senior police officers including Additional Commissioner of Police Rajendra Dahale, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 3) Pournima Gaikwad, Assistant Commissioner of Police Sunil Pawar also visited the spot and gave appropriate instructions regarding the investigation.
Inspector Gheware further informed that the investigation team looking into various aspects as there were no CCTV cameras and no eyewitnesses at the spot. But no lead could be found even after 48 hours of the incident.
On 2nd November, the police officer of the investigation team, Ujjav Mokashi got information from the children near Rokdoba temple near the spot that on 30th October, while going to eat ‘Panipuri’ in the afternoon, two of his friends came back home without eating Panipuri. The CCTV footage of the children rushing to the spot raised more suspicions so the officer took the children into confidence and questioned them further based on the information. The children were answering without any fuss or gestures. After getting more information about the children, it came to light that one of them was in the habit of stealing from his own house.
After that, when the children were questioned, shocking information came to light and two minor boys (age 14 and 16) confessed that they had killed the elderly woman.
They lived in same building and often went to meet the woman. They knew where she kept the money. About two months ago, they had stolen the key to her house after watching the CID series. But being an old woman, she never left the house and they couldn’t steal. They then planned to break into her house while the old woman was alone in the house and planned to kill her if the woman objected.
On 30th October at around 1:30 pm, the boys entered the house after confirming that the woman was alone in the house and was watching TV. They waited for her to look away and when the woman was not paying attention, they pushed her from behind choking her mouth and nose. After that, Rs 93,000 in cash and gold jewelry worth Rs 67,500 were stolen from the cupboard.
“They used hand gloves to prevent their fingerprints while committing the crime as they had seen it on an episode in the CID series. The cash and gold jewelry was stolen by the boys have been seized from them”, inspector Gheware further said.
The investigation team included Assistant Police Inspector Chetan Thorbole, Sub-Inspector Kuldip Sankapal, and police personnel Ujwal Mokashi, Sachin Malve, Shankar Kumbhar, Kishore Shinde, Avinash Konde, Amey Rasal, Deva Chavan, Suhas More, Inderjit Jagtap, Amol Patil, Sagar Bhosale, Vikas Badal Vikas Pandole and Amit Bodre.
Inspector Waghmare is further investigating the case.
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