Maharashtra: The incident took place in Pisavali area of Dombivili town on Sunday night
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A 25-year-old man allegedly stabbed his friend to death in an inebriated state during a quarrel in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Monday, news agency PTI reported.
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The incident took place in Pisavali area of Dombivili town on Sunday night, an official told PTI.
The two men were consuming alcohol, when they entered into a heated argument and the accused whipped out a knife and stabbed the victim Shailesh Shilvant (28) multiple times, inspector Suresh Madne of Manpada police station said.
The victim managed to escape from the scene, but fell some distance away. People in the vicinity rushed him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead, he said.
The accused was taken into custody following a probe, the official added.
Earlier on June 25, in a separate case, a father-son duo has been nabbed for allegedly killing a 70-year-old man over an old dispute in Ajni area of Nagpur city in Maharashtra, police told news agency PTI. The accused Ramesh Verma (48) and his son Sumit (24) were not on good terms with two sons of the deceased man. In December 2017, a case was registered against the sons of the deceased man at Ajni Police Station, reported PTI.
In another case, the Pune police in Maharashtra have arrested a friend of a woman, one of the toppers in the MPSC exam, who was found dead at the base of a fort in Pune district of Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday, reported the PTI. Citing preliminary investigation, the official said that the accused, identified as Rahul Handore (28), allegedly killed Darshana Pawar after she rejected his proposal for marriage, according to the PTI. Darshana Pawar was among the top 10 rankers in the last Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exam. Rahul Handore, who lived in Warje area of Pune, was preparing for competitive exams, the police said. "We have arrested Rahul Handore from Mumbai and he has confessed to murdering Darshana Pawar," said the police officer, according to the PTI. According to the police, the decomposed body of Darshana Pawar, with several injuries, was found at the base of the Rajgad Fort in Pune on Sunday. A post-mortem had revealed that she had been killed, the official told the PTI.
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