Owner of agency for domestics arrested

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- Parinda Bureau, December 13, 2005, 10:13 IST

OSHIWARA: It happened when Susheela Madan (60) resident of Sindhi Society, Chembur she was alone in their house on the said day along with two servants Anil Das and Arun Das.

Anil had been employed with her through an agency SK Enterprises, based at Oshiwara. Jhantu c/o Sanjay Jagdishchandra Shah is the owner of this agency.

On the day of the attack, her husband Satayapal, an ex-army man, was in Pune and her son Sanjeev had gone to his pharmaceutical shop at Mahim. Her daughter-in-law had left for work. Even her six-year-old grandson was out for tuitions.

She was alone with her servants Arun and Anil. Arun too left the house to buy some groceries from a shop.

To quote her, "At around 3.30pm, I was sleeping in my bedroom when Anil came to me and threatened me 'Budhiya almira ki chabhi de varnajaan se mar doonga' (Hand over the locker keys to me or I will kill you). On seeing me shocked, Anil took the lid of the pressure cooker and hit me several times on my head. He also tried to suffocate me to death by using a pillow and blanket. I thought that this was the last day of my life and when suddenly the doorbell rang. Anil then covered me with a blanket and threatened me to keep quiet while he went to open the door. As Anil observed that Arun was back, he quickly collected gold ornaments worth Rs. 60,000 and cash Rs.28,000 from the locker."

When Arun entered the flat he saw Anil behaving in a suspicious manner. Then came Susheela’s cry for help, ' koi mujhe bachao'. He ran towards her and saw that her hands were tied by clothes. He raced after Anil and almost caught him. Anil hit him and fled away.
He is still absconding.

A police official stated that the address of accused given in his biodata was fake. A case has been registered in Chembur police station against the agency who recommended the servant under Sections 397, 341, 342, 506 (2) and the owner of the agency, SK Enterprises is in police custody for interrogation.