Mira road killing: Manoj Sane claims 'he is HIV positive and victim was like his daughter'
Thane (Maharashtra), June 9: Manoj Sane, who has been accused of killing his alleged live-in partner Saraswati Vaidya (32), has claimed that he is HIV positive and never had any physical relationship with her as she was "like his daughter", the police said on Friday.
Manoj Sane said Saraswati Vaidya was mulling taking Class 10 SSC exams and he would teach her mathematics. The police have also reportedly found a board with math equations written on it.
During the interrogation, the accused told the police that "she had died by suicide". Manoj Sane also claimed that he tried to dispose of the body fearing that fearing he might be blamed for her death, the police said in a statement.
He was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing Saraswati Vaidya and later cutting the body into small parts with an electric tree cutter. The accused then allegedly boiled her body parts in a pressure cooker and roasted them on a gas.
According to the Thane police, Manoj Sane said when he reached home on the morning of June 3, he saw Vaidya lying on the ground and foam was coming out of her mouth. When he checked, she was not breathing. To avoid being accused of her murder, he decided to dispose of her body. After cutting the body parts into small pieces with a tree cutter, he boiled them in a pressure cooker so that there would be no foul smell and then filled the body parts in plastic bags to dispose them of, the police said.
As per police, the accused also claimed that later he also planned to end his life.
The police said the accused was not cooperating in the investigation, and he had no regrets for what he had done.
The police are verifying the accused's claim of the suicide of the deceased. The investigation is underway and the pieces of the body recovered from the accused's house have been sent to JJ Hospital for postmortem.
Accused Manoj Sane, had been staying with Vaidya in the rental flat in the Akashganga building in the Mira Road area over the past three years.
- With inputs from agencies
