Mira Bhayandar: With the arrest of Ashish Meshram, a small-time TV serial actor, from a railway station in Visakhapatnam, the Mira Road police have cracked the murder case of a househelp who was stabbed by the accused inside the third floor flat of Chandresh Accord housing society. Ashish had allegedly stabbed the 37-year-old househelp, Suman Kamble, on the neck, chest and stomach on Wednesday night, before fleeing. The Mira Road police had dispatched teams to trace and arrest him after his identity was revealed as the prime suspect. Once the accused is brought to the police station, he would be thoroughly interrogated. Senior officials at the Mira Road police station said his entry and exit to the society was quick which points to the crime being “a premeditated move”. The officials, however, said the actual sequence of events would unfold once the accused, currently on transit remand, arrives in city by weekend. Police also confirmed that the accused had demanded sexual favours from the deceased in the past which had been repeatedly turned down. Victim Kamble is survived by her husband and her four children who live in Kashimira area of Mira Road. While the husband is a cobbler, the elder son works for a private firm. Suman would support her family by working in 8-9 households as a domestic help. She had been working at Meshram’s house for the last three years.Earlier, it was only Meshram’s elder brother who stayed in the flat where the murder took place, but around a year and a half ago, the accused also moved in.As per the FIR, Meshram had called up Kamble’s second son, who is also the complainant in the case, in January, and threatened to kill Kamble if she did not continue working at his flat or if she turned down his sexual advances. This is when the son confronted his mother. Kamble eventually opened up about her ordeal and told her family that she had stopped working at Meshram’s house as he had been seeking sexual favours. On hearing this, Kamble’s son got furious and went looking for Meshram but did not find him at the flat. After a few days, when the son spotted Meshram in Mira Road, he thrashed Meshram and warned him to keep his distance from his mother. Later, however, Meshram’s older brother assured Kamble that his brother was not living with him anymore and that she should resume work at the house. On Wednesday night, when Kamble visited the flat for work, Meshram entered the flat and allegedly murdered her.
