Mumbai : The Mumbai police who were investigating the case of the finding of the headless body of a woman in Chembur last week, have been able to crack the case and trace the missing head on November 6, Wednesday. It was then that it came to light that the body was that of Kantha Shetty(36), a resident of Sakinaka who was missing since October 30.
The head was traced based on the spine chilling disclosures made by one Prabhaker Shetty (31) who was taken in for interrogations by the police following a suspicion. Shetty was a manager of a restaurant at Chembur Gymkhana. As per his revelations he had taken Kantha to his Gymkhana quarters where the two had shared intimate moments. Shetty is learnt to have taken Kantha to the bathroom where he slit her throat. When she died, he chopped her body and disposed it in bags in three different places. Finally, the police launched a search and found a head near the Shell Colony. They were led to the place by Shetty himself.
Investigations revealed that both Shetty and Kantha were in a relationship and the two had come closer ever since Kantha’s husband died two years ago. There is also information that Shetty’s parents had found a match for him and he had planned to marry soon. But Kantha did not agree to this as Shetty had promised to marry her.
It is learnt on October 30, Shetty was not keeping well and told Kantha who was repeatedly calling him so. Kantha who could not believe him had arrived at this house when the incident took place. The two reportedly had an argument after which Shetty killed her by slitting her throat.
Police said after killing Kantha, Shetty had taken three different autorickshaws in three different directions to dump the chopped parts of Kantha’s body. He dumped the torso at Chembur lake and dumped the legs and hands at Cheetah camp and the head at Shell Colony.
Police have however not found the missing hands. The remains have been sent for a forensic test. The accused has been booked under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (destroying the evidence) of the Indian Penal Code. He was produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Kurla, who sent him to police custody. Cops are yet to recover the weapon.
