Mumbai: Pant Nagar police have cracked the murder of a 41-year-old woman who was found dead with her throat slit opened in mysterious circumstances last week at PWD Ground Road in Rising City, Ghatkopar East. The police have arrested her neighbour, who allegedly killed her over a financial dispute after she failed to repay a Rs3 lakh loan taken from the accused’s wife.Police arrested Mohammed Irfan alias Fakrealam Ansari (42) and are examining the role of his wife who had lent Rs 3 lakh to the deceased.On Dec 24, Aminabi Siddiqui, residing in the SRA building near Rising City in Ghatkopar, was found brutally murdered with her throat slit open at PWD Ground Road. The crime scene is just 100 metres from her home. Aminabi’s husband, Mohammed Anwar, drives an auto rickshaw for a living. The couple have 4 children: 2 boys and 2 daughters. According to her husband, Mohammed Anwar, his wife, as usual, went for a night walk just behind her house, and when she did not respond to his phone calls and did not return, her family began searching for her. They continued the search until morning. Around 10 am on Dec 25, she was found lying in a pool of blood at the PWD Ground Road. An offence of murder was registered against an unknown person at Pant Nagar Police Station,Police said the case initially posed a major challenge as there were no CCTV cameras in the area and no eyewitnesses. The woman was found with her mangalsutra, mobile phone and other belongings were intact, ruling out robbery as a motive. “During the technical analysis and circumstances we detained Ansari who initially refused but during sustained interrogations he admitted to killing her as she had failed to return his wife’s Rs 3 lakhs loan she had taken two years ago.”said Shailash Pasalwar, Assistant commissioner of police. Deputy commissioner of police (zone 7) Hemraj Rajput said that the police team carefully analysed the technical evidence, including call detail records and location data. This analysis led investigators to zero in on the woman’s husband. “Based on technical analysis and interrogation, it emerged that the accused confronted the woman during her walk and killed her in a fit of rage over the unpaid loan,” said Rajput.
