65 year old lady brutally killed in Thane.....

A senior citizen lady aged 65 has been brutally killed by some unknown persons in the Nalla Sopara locality of Thane districts eastern part on Friday, the district rural police reported today.

PI Mukund Mahajan of the Nalla Sopara police station said that the victim Vasanti Shekar Roy, was alone at home in the afternoon as her son and daughter in law had gone to office.

It was between 3.00 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. some unknown persons had entered the flat No A-101 of the Central Park, in the eastern part of the Nalla Sopara and attacked her with sharp weapons on the face and hands due to which she died.

Old lady’s son who came home found his mother lying dead in a pool of blood and he got a shock of his life and reported the matter to the police who rushed and carried out probe.

The motive behind the brutal murder is still not not known and the police are presently exploring all the possibilities including theft, but as per preliminary reports nothing was stolen from the house.

The body of the old lady has been since sent for postmortem the police said and added that an offence under section 302 of the IPC had been registered in connection with the offence, which has baffled the neighbours and locality.

 The police were still enquiring with the watchmen of the society and other frequent visitors to get a clue about the killers, the police said.

At a time when the Home Minister has intiated a programme asking the police to take special care of the senior citizens such incidences have caused a great concern among the locals.

In fact during his visit to Thane to participate in a function to inaugurate the modernized control room of the Thane police commissionerate about an year ago, the Home Minister R R Patil, had directed all the senior police officers to visit the senior citizens in their police station area and instill confidence in them as they are living alone and make a list of them and also keep an extra vigil on them.

But such incidences have given a wrong signal about the policing in the region itself, locals said.