Cop’s wife found murdered, missing son is prime suspect

Killer leaves message in blood: ‘Tired of her catch me & hang me’

Mumbai: A Mumbai Police Inspector’s wife was found stabbed to death in their Kalina residence on Tuesday night. A cryptic message written in blood next to Dipali Ganore body has made the couple’s 21-year-old son Siddhant, who is currently missing, the prime suspect.

The victim’s husband, PI Dnyaneshwar Ganore, was part of the Sheena Bora murder investigation in 2014 before the CBI took over. Mr. Ganore is posted with Khar police station, though his transfer to Tardeo police station came through recently.

Mumbai Police spokesperson DCP Rashmi Karandikar said Mr. Ganore reached his Prabhat Colony residence around 11.00 p.m. on Tuesday to find it locked. When neither Dipali nor Siddhant responded to his phone calls, he entered using a spare key to find Dipali lying in a pool of blood. She was taken to V.N. Desai Hospital in Santacruz where she was declared dead before admission.

Police said there were multiple stab wounds to her throat and neck, believed to have been inflicted by a kitchen knife found near her body, as was a message scrawled in blood: “Tired of her catch me & hang me :-) (sic)”.

An officer at Vakola police station said Siddhant was last seen by the building’s security guard leaving his residence around an hour before Mr. Ganore reached home. Doctors at the hospital told police that Dipali was killed four to five hours before her body was found, sources said.

“Inquiries till now have indicated that Dipali and Siddhant did not see eye to eye on many aspects. She had made him enrol for BSc. in spite of him wanting to study engineering. She had forbidden him from having social media accounts like Facebook. Siddhant had become withdrawn to the point of being reclusive over the last few months and would mostly sit at home and read novels,” said an officer with Vakola police.

Another officer said while Mr. Ganore was aware of the tension between Siddhant and Dipali, he has said that there had not been any major arguments between them in the recent past. Even some of Mr. Ganore's colleagues, who had met Siddhant in the past, expressed shock. “Siddhant used to drop by at the police station once in a while and having met him, it is impossible to imagine him doing something like this. We can only hope he is traced and taken into custody before he harms himself,” a colleague said.

The police have registered a case of murder against unknown persons and on the lookout for Siddhant. The Crime Branch is conducting a parallel investigation into the case as well.