Three held for two murders connected to water vending business in trains

Three persons were arrested for allegedly murdering two water vendors and dumping their bodies in Kasara ghat and Vaitarna river a police official said on Monday reported news agency PTIThe body of one of the victims was found on February 6 after which a probe began Kasara police station senior inspector KD Kolhe said reported PTIMeanwhile Palghar police managed to arrest three persons who had fled to Hyderabad after killing a colleague whose body was found in Vaitarna river on February 3The police cracked the case as the victims hand had some names tattooed The victim was identified as Deepak Thoke 25 Further probe led to the arrests of Pentya Chittari 38 Saikumar Kadamaachi 22 and Kishore Shetye 29 a Mokhada police station official said reported PTIThey confessed to killing Thoke as well as vendor whose body they had dumped in Kasara ghat he said reported PTIIt was revealed that the accused and both victims had water vending business in trains and had a monetary dispute the official addedThe man whose body was found in Vaitarna river was killed in the house of a accused in Titwala The Kasara ghat victim identified as Rinku Gupta had water vending business in trains in the Ulhasnagar region A missing person report was filed in Ulhasnagar police station on February 2 the official added reported PTIA fourth accused identified as Sagar Telang is on the run the official said reported PTIIn another case a man allegedly sexually assaulted a sevenyearold girl in Maharashtras Palghar district and fled to Surat in neighbouring Gujarat from where he was arrested two days later police said on Saturday reported PTIThe incident occurred on Tuesday at Achole in Palghar they said reported PTIDuring a probe the police found that the 28yearold accused who hails from Rajasthan had also allegedly molested another girl a few months back in Palghar an official said reported PTIAround 1230 pm on February 13 the accused entered the victims building and forcibly took her to the terrace where he committed unnatural sexual assault on her senior inspector Shahuraj Ranavre of crime unitII in Vasai said reported PTIBased on a complaint lodged by the victim a case was registered under Indian Penal Code IPC sections 377 unnatural offences and 363 kidnapping and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act at Achole police station he saidThe crime branch officials formed a couple of teams to trace the accused They checked the CCTV footage of the locality and found that he lived in a slum colony in Nalasopara in the district As per the intelligence inputs the police came to know that the accused was travelling by Ajmer Express he said reported PTIA police team followed him and nabbed him in Surat with the help of the local crime branch officials within 48 hours he saidDuring his interrogation it came to light that the accused had dragged another sevenyearold girl in Nalasopara to an isolated place and tried to molest her Ranavre said reported PTIA case under IPC section 354 assault or use of criminal force to any woman intending to outrage her modesty and the POCSO Act was registered at Tulinj police station in connection with that incident he saidWith inputs from PTI