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US techie comes to mother's flat only to find her skeleton

  • Rituraj Sahani arrived from the US and reached his mother’s flat in Oshiwara, Mumbai, on Sunday unannounced
  • No one answered the door. He finally opened the door with the help of a key maker and found his mother’s skeletal remains
  • The police believe she died of natural causes as no injury marks were found on her body and the door was locked from the inside
US techie comes to mothers flat only to find her skeleton

An Indian IT professional working in the US came back to his mother’s flat after a year of not being in contact. But what he saw had shaken him.

Rituraj Sahani arrived from the US and reached his mother’s flat in Oshiwara, Mumbai, on Sunday, August 6, 2017. But no one answered the door. 

He finally opened the door with the help of a key maker. On reaching the bedroom, he found his 63-year-old mother’s skeletal remains.

The police sent the skeleton of Asha Sahani, Rituraj’s mother, to an autopsy examination is expected to reveal when the death occurred and the cause of death.

They have registered a case of accidental death. The police believe she died of natural causes as no injury marks were found on her body and the door was locked from the inside.

The 63-year-old Asha Sahani’s husband Kedarnath died in 2013. Sahani was living alone and was depressed, according to the police. Her last conversation with Rituraj was in April 2016. She had told him that she couldn't bear to live alone any longer and was moving to an old age home. That was their last conversation.

Subhash Khanvilkar, senior inspector, Oshiwara police station, said, “Asha K Sahani had been staying alone at her 10th-floor residence in Wells Cot society in Andheri’s Lokhandwala area since her husband died in 2013. Their son Rituraj, an engineer, had moved to the US in 1997.”

Khanwilkar said that since the 10th floor has only two flats and both belong to the Sahanis, neighbours did not sense any foul smell. “In the bedroom, Rituraj found the body of his mother, which had decomposed to such an extent that only her skeleton remained. We suspect she must have passed away at least a few weeks ago.”

The Oshiwara police are now questioning the neighbours for more information.

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