We all have probably heard of blood relations fight for the money, property. The greed for property and money can destroy the lives of complete families. A case of greed in Mumbai has turned a woman into a murderer.
In one of the shocking incident, a 32-year-old woman murder her mother-in-law who was 70-year-old. The incident happened at their residence in Chembur’s Pestum Sagar colony in Mumbai.
The deceased, identified as Sanjana Patil, was brought to Rajawadi hospital with serious injuries. It is said that she slipped and fell down in the bathroom on Monday evening. However, upon investigating police discovered that Anjana Dinesh Patil, the wife of Sanjana’s adopted son Dinesh Patil had killed her.
The husband of Sanjana Patil passed away a few years ago. The couple had no child so she adopted, the son of her husband’s brother. The elderly owned four flats- two in Chembur and two in Worli. She had rented out three-flats and lived in the fourth one with her adopted son and his wife. Despite earning money from renting out flats Sanjana was forced to seek alms outside a Jain temple in the city’s Ghatkopar locality
After Sanjana was taken to Rajawadi hospital on Monday evening where her family claimed that she fell in the bathroom. However, suspicious grew among doctors upon noticing around 14 injuries on Sanjana’s body and stretch marks on her neck. Subsequently, they informed the police. Police initiated an investigation after registering a case of murder.
The accused daughter-in-law did not cooperate with the investigating officials during interrogation. Police got leads after her younger daughter told the officials that her mother and grandmother fought in the morning. An official told TOI:
“The old lady used to beg and hide money anywhere in the house and ask Anjana which resulted in fights. The officials also found the deceased woman’s gold jewellery in the accused daughter-in-law’s inner wear.”\
At around 3 pm on Monday, an altercation flared up between Anjana (Daughter-in-law) and Sanjana(Mother-in-law). Anjana got filled with rage and picked up a cricket bat and assaulted Sanjana several times.
Later, she pulled out a string from Sanjana’s innerwear and strangulated her as she did not die with the cricket bat. The string broke. She then used a mobile charger to strangulate her till she stopped breathing.
Later, the accused confessed that she was fed up with frequent fights and wanted all four flats to be transferred in her name.
