When the Vile Parle police, while conducting the panchnama following the death of senior citizen last year, found what they thought to be a pool of urine outside her door, they thought the case had been cracked. However, five months on, it seems they jumped the gun.
The sleuths had assumed the pool of liquid to be the urine excreted by the culprits. To verify their suspicion, the liquid was sent for forensic examination at the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratory (DFSL) in Kalina. However, the test result, which came out recently, revealed the liquid to be water and not urine.
A source said that the cops were so confident about their deduction that they had even held four suspects in another unrelated case hoping to arrest them for the murder once the results came through. The cops wanted to match the DNA of the suspects through the urine, which would have established their presence at the crime scene at the time of the murder. “However, now since our suspicion has been proven to be baseless, we are left with no other option but to release the suspects,” said a police source.
On October 15, 2011, Prameela Ghodi, 87, was found dead at her flat. Valuables worth Rs3.63 lakh were stolen. Ghodi, a resident Vile Parle, lived with her son’s family. The family had clubbed two flats together. While the elderly woman stayed in one flat, her son and daughter-in-law stayed in the adjacent one.
