I never dreamt my son would murder someone. He had come to Mumbai to help me financially. When I realised my son was a murderer, I helped the cops trace and arrest him,” said Sanjay Kumar Pandit, the father of Kanhaiya Kumar Pandit, 21, who killed a 67-year-old woman, Jyoti Shah, in her Nepean Sea Road residence on Tuesday. Kanhaiya had called his father from an unknown number, which helped the cops trace him to Jalgaon on Wednesday.

The deceased, who lived in a 20th-floor flat in Tahnee Heights at Nepean Sea Road and whose husband owns a jewellery store in Nariman Point, was allegedly strangled by Kanhaiya on the afternoon of March 12, his second day on the job. The youth fled with two bangles and switched off his phone.