India, May 4 -- A 78-year-old woman was strangled and bludgeoned to death with a brick in Bandra East after she objected to a man urinating in public. The Kherwadi police in Bandra have arrested the accused, identified as Bhanudas Vitthal Kamble, 44, from Thane, days after the murder.

The victim, Saubhagyamma Kathimyunar, 78, a resident of Dharavi, was found lying in a pool of blood on a footpath near an RNA building in Bandra East on April 27. Passersby rushed her to Sion Hospital, where doctors declared her dead before admission.

The post-mortem report revealed signs of strangulation along with severe head injuries inflicted by a blunt object, prompting the police to register a case of murder under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). ...