A 32-year-old woman was strangled with her saree by the man who had been her lover for the past four years. The alleged killer Shekhar Kadam, 38, has been arrested by Virar police and the body has been sent to JJ hospital for a post-mortem. Sources told mid-day that the deceased, Dhanashree Ambadaskar, the mother of two girls, had been desperately wanting to marry Kadam. “She had made 16 phone calls to Kadam, asking him to meet her on the day she was killed,” said a senior police officer.

The suspect told us that she had been pressing him hard to divorce his wife, but he was not ready to do so,” he added. The deceased would meet Kadam when her husband was away for work. “The afternoon was an ideal time for them to meet at her one-room kitchen in Virar East as both her children would be in school and her husband was out,” said an officer.