Five years after Naushir (76) and Nargis (74) Irani were murdered at their residence in Kotim village in Vangaon, near Dahanu town in Northern Maharashtra, sessions judge S. S. Gulhaney found 31-year-old Ravi Thakur, a son of the Iranis’ caretaker, guilty of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment. It was a phone specially made for senior citizens stolen by Thakur from the Iranis’ residence that helped the police trace the culprit via electronic surveillance, reported The Times of India (ToI) on December 20, 2019. Thakur’s whereabouts were given away when he inserted a new SIM card to use the phone. Nabbed from Surat a few days after the December 9, 2014 murder (see "Murder most foul,” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, January 7, 2015) the perpetrator has been in prison since then.
The news report stated that the public prosecutor Deepak Tare, who examined 27 witnesses, pleaded for a death sentence for Thakur. Tare was quoted in ToI as stating that while Naushir was killed in the kitchen, Nargis was murdered in the compound of their residence. Thakur had reportedly cut Nargis’s ears, taken her gold earrings and left the severed ears by Naushir’s body. The murder came to light the next day when the couple’s domestic help arrived at the house.
The once thriving Zoroastrian community of Dahanu is fast dwindling. "Most of the young generation has migrated abroad or to big cities for jobs or businesses, leaving behind aging parents. Almost 99% of our community here are senior citizens. They live in large farmhouses without any security,” Naushir’s cousin Rohinton Taraporewala had told the Hindustan Times (December 15, 2014) when the crime was first reported.