A 52-year-old man was found murdered in an apartment in Mumbra area of Thane district in Maharashtra, the police said on Tuesday. The victim who has been identified as Abdul Haque Zakir Ali Sayyed, was allegedly in his apartment in Kausa area of Mumbra on Monday morning, inspector Babasaheb Nikam of Mumbra police station said, according to PTI. 

It is suspected that some unidentified person slit the victim's wrists and throat to kill him. At the crime scene the police have also recovered a bloodstained knife in his hand which the killer may have left behind to make it appear like a suicide, a police official said, PTI reported.