The plight of the Parsi elderly residing alone and dependent on domestic caregivers and/or servants was vividly brought out in the case of 77-year-old Dadar resident Yezdiar Edel Behram who had passed away on October 8, 2020.
After an enquiry that lasted over a year, the Police registered on December 15, 2021 a case of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide not amounting to murder against caretaker Mangal Gaikwad and her son Krishna, according to a report in The Indian Express (IE) of December 18, 2021. The duo has been charged with "intentionally ignoring an ill senior citizen, resulting in his death.”......