Navi Mumbai hostel manager ends his life; owner held for abetment

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In Navi Mumbai, a 26-year-old manager of a hostel for paying guests committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Kharghar, Maharashtra. The Navi Mumbai hostel manager's dead body was discovered on Monday morning, prompting authorities to investigate, per a report in PTI.

According to the report, authorities arrested a 32-year-old man who runs a private hostel in the Ulve area on allegations of abduction and aiding suicide. The accused claimed that the victim embezzled Rs 60,000 from the hostel's money, which was thereafter recovered from him.

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The accused further alleged that the manager overcharged customers by Rs 5,500, according to Sub-Inspector Subhash Shelar of the NRI Sagri police station, the report added.

The PTI report stated that on Sunday, when the accused, along with unidentified friends, allegedly kidnapped the victim from Ulve. They led him to a flat near a temple in Divale hamlet, where he was allegedly attacked with an iron pipe. The victim's mother alleged in her lawsuit that the event left him sad, which led to his choice to end his life.

According to the report, authorities arrested the accused in the early hours of Tuesday and charged him with various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including abetment of suicide, kidnapping, and common intention. Efforts are underway to locate and apprehend the other persons implicated in the case.

In another incident, the cops in Thane arrested a 27-year-old man who had been on the run for over seven months in connection with a case of attempt to murder a meat shop owner in Thane city,

According to a report in PTI, on June 14 last year, a group of 7-8 people allegedly attacked the business owner in Dhokali with sharp weapons after he refused to provide them with information about an individual, according to senior police inspector Anand Raorane. The shop owner was severely hurt during the incident and was treated in a hospital, the PTI report added.

According to the official, the police then filed a case against the accused, including the 27-year-old man who fled, under Indian Penal Code sections 307 (attempt to murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and others.