Seventy-eight-year-old Darius Kapadia, who was murdered by his former domestic help Jay Navrang on March 7 this year, had been warned by the Bai Hirabai Tata Memorial Trust (BHTMT), which runs Tata Blocks in Bandra, to dismiss the man, states a report in Mumbai Mirror (MM) of April 10, 2015. The Trust told the newspaper that Kapadia and his wife Lily had been cautioned not to retain Navrang’s services 10 months before the tragedy occurred, but they did not take the warning seriously — with fatal consequences (see "Murder in Tata Blocks,” Events and Personalities, Parsiana, April 7, 2015).
In addition to serving at the Kapadia residence Navrang also worked as a mali (gardener) in the colony. The Trust terminated his services on May 29, 2014 allegedly for indiscipline, using foul language and threatening other employees in the complex, revealed MM. The Trust’s manager, J. P. Katrak visited the Kapadias the very next day and apprised them about the situation, urging them to get rid of the domestic help immediately. "The family did not bother about our warnings. Had they dismissed the servant when we cautioned them, this heinous crime could possibly have been averted and the elderly gentleman would perhaps have been alive today,” solicitor Burjor Antia, BHTMT trustee told MM.
The police say that the Kapadias finally got rid of Navrang a few days before the murder when they found him passing lewd comments about a girl. But people in the complex revealed to MM that Navrang continued to visit the elderly couple and was often seen loitering in the compound of Tata Blocks.