Palghar: Cops look for three men who killed auto driver

The body of the victim, 29-year-old Asif Dhochi who was an autorickshaw driver by profession and a resident of Palghar, was recovered from the Amboli ghat (mountain road) section near Trimbakeshwar in Nashik

A day after the body of a driver hailing from Palghar was found in Nashik, a police team has been sent to Chhattisgarh to trace three unidentified people, who allegedly killed him and took away the car in which they were travelling, a police officer said.

The body of the victim, 29-year-old Asif Dhochi who was an autorickshaw driver by profession and a resident of Palghar, was recovered from the Amboli ghat (mountain road) section near Trimbakeshwar in Nashik, he said.

The body was in a highly decomposed state when it was found on August 15, three days after the victim left Palghar to take the trio to Nashik in a car, a task given by his acquaintance. The police later found that the car was moving in Chhattisgarh, Palghar Superintendent of Police (SP) Balasaheb Patil said on Wednesday.

Talking to PTI, the SP said a complaint in this connection was lodged by the victim’s wife, who said that her husband called her on August 12 to tell her that he was going to Nashik to ferry three people there in a car and return.

“As per the complaint, a person whom the victim knew  requested him to take the three people to Nashik in his car as no other driver was available,” Patil said. Dhochi agreed and around 4.30 pm he started the journey with the trio. Later, when his wife tried to contact him, he was not reachable. When she could not reach him for a long time despite repeated efforts, she panicked and approached the police, he said.

The police launched a probe and came to know that the car was spotted at a checkpost in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur with someone driving the vehicle, he said. On Tuesday afternoon, Dhochi’s highly decomposed body was found in Amboli ghat near Trimbakeshwar. 

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