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Virar elderly nabbed a year after she strangled hubby

Two days later, she filed a case of murder against a person who had taken loan from her husband Rajnikant Pandya. The police arrested the person but found no evidence against him, which led them to suspect the wife.

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The Virar police have nabbed a 52-year-old woman for allegedly strangulating her husband, wrapping his body in a gunny sack and dumping it in a gutter a year ago. Annapurna Pandya was arrested from Gujarat, where she had been hiding since a court rejected her anticipatory bail plea.

On February 16, 2015, Annapurna filed a missing complaint with the Virar police after her husband Rajnikant (58) disappeared from their Gopcharpada home in Virar (E). Two days later, an unidentified body was found in a gunny bag in a nullah in Sahakar Nagar. It was identified as that of Rajnikant based on a cellphone found near it.

Two days later, she filed a case of murder against a person who had taken loan from her husband Rajnikant Pandya. The police arrested the person but found no evidence against him, which led them to suspect the wife.

Annapurna then approached the Vasai sessions court and the Bombay High Court for anticipatory bail, but her applications were rejected. Following that, she went absconding.

"We suspect that the woman had an extra-marital affair and also wanted to take over her husband's property. So we started tracking her activities," said a Virar police official. "There is another suspect as well. It seems the woman has kept all her legal options open," he added.

"After interrogation, she confessed to the crime. She also accepted that she planted documents near the body so that the cops could identify the person," said inspector Younis Shaikh. "We have booked her under section 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The Vasai court has remanded her into police custody till July 8," he added.

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