30-yr-old man shot dead in Thane

While Umesh Gaikar and his friend stopped their motorbike at a petrol pump in Khativali near Vashind yesterday afternoon, four persons got down from Esteem car and shot Umesh from point blank range, Shahapur police inspector Ganpat Pingle said.u00a0

While the victim collapsed on the spot, the assailants fled in the car.

The body has been since sent for post-mortem and search for the killers is on, police said adding that an old enmity was suspected to be the cause of the murder.

Incidentally, a BJP leader from Shahapur, Sanjay Dhumal, was killed sometime back and Umesh was arrested in that connection, but he later secured a bail.
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