Mumbai, Jun 23 (PTI) The kin of an elderly woman found near a garbage dump in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony were traced on Monday and were being questioned on the chain of events that led to her reaching the area, a police official said.
The woman, in her 60s or 70s, was found lying among piles of rotting garbage on Saturday morning, following which her images were circulated on social media etc in an effort to identify her and reunite her with kin, the Aarey police station official said.
“We traced her family members to Poisar in Kandivali after a man from there recognised the woman as someone who used to occasionally sit outside his shop. They claim she had left home and that she had not been dumped there by them. They also claimed she had left home in this manner earlier as well. We are questioning them to verify their claims,” he said.
After she was found in unit number 32 of Aarey Colony following a call to the Mumbai police control room by an alert citizen, two hospitals refused to take her in before she was admitted to civic-run Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle, the official said.
“The woman told us her name was Yashoda Gaikwad and that she used to live with her grandson in Malad. She claimed he brought her to Aarey and dumped her. The two addresses she provided were of no use as no one was staying there,” the official added.
“An investigation into the chain of events that led to her reaching this spot in distress is being probed. We are scanning CCTV footage of the vicinity,” he said. PTI ZA BNM
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