Navi Mumbai: Man stabs colleague to death for Rs 500; held

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A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his colleague to death in a dispute over Rs 500 in Navi Mumbai, police told news agency PTI on Saturday.

The victim Vickey Chindaliya (27), a scrap collector, was found dead near Panvel railway station on August 8, inspector Anjum Bhagwan of the Panvel city police station told PTI.

Investigations revealed that the victim worked in the area near the railway station and lived there with a colleague, he said.

Based on several leads and CCTV footage from the scene, the police zeroed in on the victim's colleague Sachin Shinde and nabbed him from his hometown in Aurangabad district on Thursday, the official told PTI.

On interrogation, Shinde revealed that the victim owed him Rs 500 and the duo argued over it while consuming alcohol on the day of the murder, the official told PTI.

The accused allegedly stabbed the victim to death and fled the scene, the official told PTI.

In another incident, a man was allegedly kidnapped and beaten to death on the suspicion of theft by four persons in Navi Mumbai, following which the police have arrested three of the accused, an official told PTI on Wednesday.

The incident took place between 9.30 am and 2.30 pm on Tuesday, in which the accused also attacked the deceased man's friend, injuring him seriously, he said.

The accused trio was arrested late Tuesday night, the official of Kharghar police station told PTI.

"The complaint in this connection was lodged by the injured man Anil Jadhav (26), a labourer. It said that four accused took him and his 35-year-old friend Vinod Rathod to a shop, where they were held captive. The accused thrashed them with stumps besides punching and kicking them," he said.

They pushed Rathod to a wall, following which he collapsed and later died. Jadhav was seriously injured in the attack, the official added.

"Of the four accused, three were arrested. One of them is the owner of a welding shop. He had a suspicion that the two victims had stolen iron rods from outside his shop. He abducted them with the help of three others and beat them up," senior inspector Rajiv Shejwal told PTI.

An case under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder), 367 (kidnapping or abducting in order to subject person to grievous hurt, slavery, etc), 342 (wrongful confinement), 324 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (common intention) was registered, Shejwal told PTI.

According to PTI, the accused were identified as shop owner Dinkar Pralhad Lavand (42), Abhimanyu Bihari Yadav (24) and Rajkumar Sriramdhani Yadav (27), the police said, adding that search is on to nab the fourth accused Gulab Amarsingh Chavan alias Pintu Chavan.

(With inputs from PTI)