Gymkhana manager held in Chembur body parts case

November 6, 2013

Mumbai, Nov 6: With the arrest of a gymkhana manager on Tuesday, the Chembur police claimed to have solved the mystery of the body parts of a woman that were found Chembur and Trombay last week.

The police said Prabhakar Shetty (31), manager of Chembur Gymkhana, killed 36-year-old fashion designer Kanta Shetty and cut her body into pieces in the bathroom of his first floor flat at Subhash Nagar in Chembur with a sharp knife and dumped the body parts in Chembur and Trombay.

“We have booked Prabhakar under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He will be produced before the court on Wednesday,” said Prahlad Panaskar, senior police inspector of Chembur police station, adding that Prabhakar also showed the nullah at Shell Colony in Chembur where he dumped the head of Kanta.

The police are yet to trace the hands and the blood-stained knife. “During the interrogation it was revealed that Prabhakar and Kanta met each other two-and-half year’s ago on a train to Mangalore and they became close friends,” Panaskar said, adding that Kanta started pressurising him to marry her.

Fed up with the mental torture, Prabhakar decided to kill her. “On the night of October 29, Kanta visited Prabhakar’s flat. They had a fight. Then Prabhakar took her to the bathroom and slit her throat with a knife. He chopped her hands, legs and head and put them in four big polythene bags,” said the official.

The police said Prabhakar hired an autorickshaw and told the driver that he wanted to dispose of puja articles. He then reached Charai lake in Chembur at 9.45pm and dumped the torso concealed in polythene bags. Then he returned home in the same auto.

“Later, he hired another autorickshaw and threw the hands and legs in the mangroves in the Trombay creek and returned home. After that he took another rickshaw to throw the head in a Shell Colony nullah in Chembur,” the official added.

The police said the incident came to light on November 4 when the victim’s elder sister Suhasini Shetty lodged a missing person’s complaint at Sakinaka and suspected Prabhakar’s involvement.

The missing person’s descriptions matched with descriptions of torso and limbs of a woman found at Chembur and Trombay, respectively. The Chembur police rushed to the spot and interrogated Prabhakar Shetty. During interrogation, Prabhakar confessed to the crime.

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Chaos continues as IndiGo cancels more flights including 73 from Bengaluru airport

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December 4,2025

Domestic carrier IndiGo has cancelled over 180 flights from three major airports — Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru — on Thursday, December 4, as the airline struggles to secure the required crew to operate its flights in the wake of new flight-duty and rest-period norms for pilots.

While the number of cancellations at Mumbai airport stands at 86 (41 arrivals and 45 departures) for the day, at Bengaluru, 73 flights have been cancelled, including 41 arrivals, according to a PTI report that quoted sources.

"IndiGo cancelled over 180 flights on Thursday at three airports-Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru," the source told the news agency.

Besides, it had cancelled as many as 33 flights at Delhi airport for Thursday, the source said, adding, "The number of cancellations is expected to be higher by the end of the day."

The Gurugram-based airline's On-Time Performance (OTP) nosedived to 19.7 per cent at six key airports — Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad — on December 3, as it struggled to get the required crew to operate its services, down from almost half of December 2, when it was 35 per cent.

"IndiGo has been facing acute crew shortage since the implementation of the second phase of the FDTL (Flight Duty Time Limitations) norms, leading to cancellations and huge delays in its operations across the airports," a source had told PTI on Wednesday.

Chaos continued at several major airports for the third day on Thursday because of the cancellations.

A spokesperson for the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru said that 73 IndiGo flights had been cancelled on Thursday.

At least 150 flights were cancelled and dozens of others delayed on Wednesday, airport sources said, leaving thousands of travellers stranded, according to news agency Reuters.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has said it is investigating IndiGo flight disruptions and has asked the airline to submit the reasons for the current situation, as well as its plans to reduce flight cancellations and delays.

It may be mentioned here that the pilots' body, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), has alleged that IndiGo, despite getting a two-year preparatory window before the full implementation of new flight duty and rest period norms for cockpit crew, "inexplicably" adopted a "hiring freeze".

The FIP said it has urged the safety regulator, the DGCA, not to approve airlines' seasonal flight schedules unless they have adequate staff to operate their services "safely and reliably" in accordance with the New Flight Duty Time Limitations (FDTL) norms.

In a letter to the DGCA late on Wednesday, the FIP urged the DGCA to consider re-evaluating and reallocating slots to other airlines, which have the capacity to operate them without disruption during the peak holiday and fog season if IndiGo continues to "fail in delivering on its commitments to passengers due to its own avoidable staffing shortages."

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