Mumbai: A day after a dentist Dr Umesh Bobale from Matunga stabbed his wife Tanuja to death and confessed about the crime to the police, the latter is likely to record the statement of the couple’s four-year-old child with the help of counsellors. The Shivaji Park police suspect that the young boy may have witnessed the crime.
“The boy was in the same house and is repeatedly telling us majhya baba ne majhya aai ka maarla (my father killed my mother). But we still don’t know whether he saw the father stabbing the mother or saw the body immediately after the murder,” said an investigator. He added that child is currently staying with his deceased mother’s maternal family.
Early on Sunday morning, Bobale called the police control room and said that he had murdered his wife, subsequent to which the police arrived in his plush house in Kohinoor Tower and arrested him.
“The victim had been stabbed 18 times on various parts of her body including her face and hands," said an officer. Senior police inspector Gangadhar Sonawane said the accused’s statement was recorded on Monday.
