Police and experts at the spot were Hasnain Warekar murdered his family before comitting suicide. (Express photo by Deepak Joshi) Police and experts at the spot were Hasnain Warekar murdered his family before comitting suicide. (Express photo by Deepak Joshi)

The probe into the Thane massacre has revealed that Hasnain Warekar had debts of Rs 68 lakh and the sole survivor has now told police that he used to sexually assault his mentally ill sister, police said Saturday.

“We have found that his debts totaled to nearly Rs 68 lakh. He owed the money primarily to family members. Secondly, Subia has told us that Hasnain had earlier sexually assaulted his 30-year-old mentally ill sister. He realised that the entire family knew about the abuse and that might have prompted him to commit the crime. We are still investigating and verifying all angles,” said Ashok Dumbare, Joint Commissioner, Thane Police.

He had invited three more relatives — who had loaned him Rs 15 lakh each — to dinner and intended to kill them all. However, all three declined the invitation. “We have inquired with two aunts and grandfather Gulzar Ahmed, who is 80 years old. Ahmed declined the invitation citing medical reasons and aunts also did not attend. All three were lucky not to have gone as prime facie investigation suggested that Hasnain also wanted to kill people he owed money to,” said an investigator.

The medicines found by police during a search of the Warekars’ house did not belong to Hasnain, but was prescribed to a sister who was being treated for a mental illness, police said.

“We have spoken to the doctor who prescribed the medicines, and to another doctor in Thane. Medical records showed that Hasnain was not being formally treated for any illness but was regularly consuming his sister’s medicines. We have also learnt that Hasnain’s mother would scold him that it was dangerous, but he paid her no heed,” an investigator said.

The police officer added that Hasnain often visited a Thane-based doctor, claiming he had chest pains. However, the family has told police that Hasnain did not get an ECG test done.

Sole survivor Subia had recorded an eight-page statement with the police on Friday and Saturday. She told the police that Hasnain “gandi harkat karta tha”, referring to the sexual abuse, Dumbare said.

“When Subia had visited her parents’ home on January 6, her sister had confided in her that she was being sexually assaulted by Hasnain. Subia then took the matter to their mother Asghari, who beat the sister and said ‘yeh kya ho raha hai?’. But the sister did not confront Hasnain. Since then, we learnt that Asghari never left her daughter alone and always slept next to her,” Dumbare added.

On the night of the murders, Asghari was sleeping next to the abused sister on the carpet of the living room. The police said Subia has claimed she was awaken in the middle of the night by loud screams, which were believed to be of her elder sister.

“Subia has said she then witnessed her mother being killed and was heard saying, ‘Hasnain, I am your mother…I gave you birth’ and that she saw bodies everywhere,” Dumbare said.

Investigators privy to Subia’s statement said Hasnain repeatedly threatened her saying, “Main tujhe tadap tadap ke maroonga”.

“Hasnain caught her by the hair and pushed aside her sister’s 16-year-old daughter Sadia. She got up and when she tried to reach the ground-floor bedroom door knob, Hasnain pulled her by the hair and held her against the wall. She distracted him by saying ‘Sadia was moving’ and got out of his grip but got slashed on her throat. She managed to run into the bedroom and lock the door,” said an investigator.

When she was inside the bedroom, she started yelling for help from outside the window.

“Hasnain walked out of the main door and told her to let him into the bedroom, and stay quiet or else he would kill her youngest daughter,” Dumbare said.

However, she did not stop pleading for help and Hasnain went into the house and hanged himself from the staircase.

Hasnain used to “playfully and seriously” hold a butcher’s knife against the throats of his sisters and wife threatening to take their lives, police investigation revealed. The same knife, Subia, said was used to terrorise his family with for at least four months.

“Subia told us that while holding the knife against the throats of two of his sisters, Hasnain used to say to each of them, ‘for you, there will be two cuts required, for you only one’,” Dumbare added.

Scene Outside The Thane House Where A Man Allegedly Killed 14 Of His Family



📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines

For all the latest Mumbai News, download Indian Express App.