In yet another barbaric and savage incident, a 56-year-old man brutally murdered his live-in partner and then disposed parts of her body in the most gruesome manner in Mumbai. The slaying which had certain similarities with the Shraddha Walkar case, that rocked the national capital some months ago, Manoj Sane, the accused in this instance was remorseless. While the police is now investigating the various angles involved in the killing, the matter raises questions about the increasing trend of crime against women, and how trusting victims have succumbed to the evil designs of psychopaths. The sensational crime has also brought out the need to provide greater security for women, and harsher steps to deal with domestic violence. In the instance of both Shraddha Walkar and Saraswati Vaidya, it is obvious that the women, once they were in a relationship, had little or no support from either their families or the civil society. They were completely at the mercy of their live-in partners, who not only tortured and mistreated them, and when the time came, killed them and then tried to destroy evidence by chopping off the body parts, and disposing them in the most savage manner. The legal system as it exists, at this juncture, is insufficient to deal with crimes of this nature and it would take years for the perpetrators to be convicted and given the appropriate punishment. Therefore, those in authority must constitute a panel to ensure that there is fast-track system that is in place, and deals with brutal crimes in order to give the strictest punishment to the accused persons, once they are convicted. The Saraswati Vaidya case has sent shock waves all around, and it is unthinkable how anyone could do what her partner, many years her senior did. The murder also brings back memories of the Tandoor murder case in Delhi, 28 years ago when a former Indian Youth Congress leader, Sushil Sharma, had in a fit of rage, shot dead his wife, Naina Sahni, and then had attempted to dispose her body in a Tandoor of a restaurant in a Hotel on Ashoka Road by pouring cakes of butter. Had it not been for the timely intervention of an alert beat constable, the crime would have gone undetected. The entire incident from the beginning to the time of Sharma’s arrest is featured in a book by former senior officer, Maxwell Periera, who supervised the investigations, and was instrumental in bringing the accused back from the Southern States, where he was trying to seek refuge. The Shraddha Walkar case in Delhi had shaken the conscience of even the most hardened people and the police is doing its best to ensure that the matter reaches its logical end. In Mumbai, the police may now have to do something identical in the latest case, that exposes many alarming aspects so far as security of women is concerned. People in general and families in particular, should also be more responsive about complaints they receive from women who are suffering, and help the authorities in bringing the perpetrators to justice, before such murders take place elsewhere. The society as such has to be more responsive to the realities that exist and cannot absolve itself of the responsibility in coming to the aid of hapless women dependent on their partners, who whether they are in live-in relationships or actually married, have to suffer. There should be zero tolerance for such acts.