Overview
- Police say 25-year-old Gayatri was stabbed to death inside her parents’ home in the Rachna Royal building in Parekarwadi and died on the spot from multiple wounds.
- Her father, Vinod Vasaikar, fled after the attack and was tracked and arrested three days later in Ulhasnagar using technical analysis, mobile-location leads and intelligence inputs.
- Investigators report that Vasaikar confessed in custody that he killed his adult daughter because he could not accept her marriage to a man from another caste and the Bazarpeth police have remanded him to custody.
- The probe is at an early stage and officers are building the criminal case with forensic evidence, CCTV and witness statements while formal charges and detailed forensic reports are pending.
- Police and local reporting frame the killing as a suspected honour killing linked to caste-based motives, a category that carries wider legal and social implications for investigation and community response.