Maharashtra: Two held in 2018 murder case of man in Raigad

Police have arrested two persons who were allegedly involved in the murder case of a man in Maharashtras Raigad district six years ago an official said reported the PTIThe local crime branch on Monday arrested Omkar Sunil Shinde and Rohit Vishnu Patil in connection with the death of Jayesh Kashinath Khude a resident of Tawane village the official said as per the PTIAccording to the PTI Jayesh Khudes body was found in a culvert under Rasayani police station limits on April 13 2018 following which a case of murder was registered against unidentified persons he saidThe police recently received a tipoff about the involvement of Shinde and Patil and they were detained the official said as per the PTIAccording to the police there was a dispute between the accused and the victim and on the day of the incident the duo allegedly took Khude to an isolated area stabbed him to death and threw his body in a culvert he said the news agency reported on TuesdayMeanwhile in an another incident the Thane Police in Maharashtra have arrested a man from Thane district for allegedly strangulating his 27yearold wife to death over the suspicion of infidelity and burying her body in a dilapidated house an official said on Tuesday reported the PTIThe body of the deceased woman was recovered from Angaon village in Bhiwandi taluka of the Thane district he saidA police patrol team received information that a woman identified as Jyotsana Shelar from Ambarnath went missing since March 5 A missing persons report was filed by her relatives at the Shivaji Nagar police station assistant inspector Dharmaraj Sonke of Ganeshpuri police station said according to the PTIThe police launched a probe and received several inputs which led to the detention of her 29yearold husband Digambar Shelar he saidDuring his sustained interrogation he admitted that he had killed his wife and buried her body in a dilapidated house in his native Angaon village he addedDuring the probe the police found that following their marriage the couple lived together for a few months but as the husband doubted her character the duo started quarreling frequently Fed up with him the woman stopped living with him and went to her parents house in Ambarnath the police official said as per the PTIOn March 5 the accused met her and requested her to accompany him to his village On their arrival there he strangulated her to death following which he dug a pit and buried her there the police saidTwelve days later the police exhumed her body as per the details provided by the accused The body which was highlydecomposed was sent to the Mumbaibased J J Hospital for postmortem the official saidA case under Indian Penal Code IPC sections 302 murder and 201 causing disappearance of evidence was registered against him and he was arrested he added