Man arrested for abandoning grandmother suffering from cancer at garbage dumping site
Mumbai Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly abandoning his 60-year-old grandmother suffering from skin cancer at a garbage dumping site at Aarey Colony.
According to police, the accused, Sagar Shevale (33), told them that he abandoned his ailing grandmother, Yashoda Gaikwad, out of frustration after spending a lot of money on her treatment, and hospitals refusing to admit her.
The police have also arrested a relative of Shevale and the driver of an autorickshaw in which he took his grandmother to the dumping site.
Shevale works as an office boy at a firm in Andheri while his wife works as a domestic help, police said, adding that Gaikwad lives with them.
On June 22, Gaikwad was found abandoned in a garbage dumping place near Aarey forest area. A police team spotted the elderly woman lying amid the garbage and rushed her to the Cooper hospital.
The police started scanning the CCTV footage outside Shevale's Borivali building and it was revealed that on June 21, he and his relative Babasaheb Gaikwad (70) rushed the elderly woman in an autorickshaw to Shatabdi Hospital.
However, the hospital did not admit her and recommended them to take her to Nair hospital, police said.
Fed up of this, Shevale asked the autodriver to take them to Aarey Colony and he allegedly abandoned the woman at the dumping site. Shevale also allegedly told Gaikwad that he would take her back home after some time, a police officer said.
'We have found CCTV footage showing Shevale along with the elderly person near his house and also outside the Shatabdi hospital, which confirms that he abandoned her. He claimed he had put in a lot of money in her treatment and was fed up with her expensive treatment and taking care of her,' said Ravindra Patil, senior inspector of Aarey Marg police station.
Shewale and two others were arrested under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita section 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) and the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act.
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