Maharashtra: 25-year-old man killed in Thane, three booked

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The Thane Police in Maharashtra on Thursday registered a case against three persons for allegedly killing a 25-year-old man over a financial dispute and trying to burn the body, an official said, according to the PTI.

Girish Gode, senior inspector of Chitalsar police station, said the accused, identified as Gurunath Kakdya Jadhav (27), Karan Anil Sawra (24) and Prashant, alias Babu Maruti Jabar (21), have been detained, as per the PTI.

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Akash Thube, a resident of Vasant Vihar area, was on August 29 killed with a sharp weapon at Jadhav's home over a monetary dispute, the official said. He was apparently associated with the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minster Eknath Shinde, reported the PTI.

The accused trio later set Thube's body afire near a hill after taking out gold jewellery. A case has been registered against the three under Indian Penal Code sections, including 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence).

Meanwhile, in an another incident, Mumbai Police on Wednesday solved a horrifying case of murder in the eastern suburbs of the city and arrested a 33-year-old man for allegedly killing a 17-year-old teenager, then dismembering his body in the kitchen of the house.

According to the police, on August 28, the RCF police in eastern suburbs of Mumbai had got information regarding a dismembered dead body of a young boy. Upon receiving the information, the officials from the RCF police rushed to the spot and shifted the dead body for a post mortem. The police later registered a murder case against an unknown suspect for allegedly killing the teenager and began investigations.

"The body of the teen was cut into several pieces. He cut his head, legs and hands and later dumped the body," an official said.

The police said, during investigations the police found that on the day of the incident, the deceased identified as Ishwar Awhad was seen with the suspect who was identified as Shafi alias Shafiq Ahmed Shaikh, 33. The police picked him up for questioning but did not get any satisfactory answers from Shafi upon questioning him for the murder.

"He was questioned, at first he gave unsatisfactory answers to the questioned asked by the investigators. Later, he was thoroughly questioned following which he confessed that he had killed the deceased after being angry with him for allegedly constantly teasing his wife and his wife's sister," the official said.

(with PTI inputs)