Fair ride operator held after teenage boy dies of electrocution in Vasai

An official on Wednesday said that the police arrested a fair ride operator after a 19yearold youth died of electrocution when he touched an iron railing in Vasai city in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region reported news agency PTIThe incident occurred Monday night when the victim Harsh Sena touched the iron railing while watching rides He suffered an electric shock and died on the spot reported PTIPrimarily the electric current entered the railing due to power leakage from its main source police said reported PTIFollowing the incident irate people ransacked the fair police saidPolice registered an FIR against the operator of rides and the organiser of the fair and arrested the former under sections 106 1 causing death by negligence and 35 a criminal act done in furtherance of common intention under the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhit said senior police inspector Sujitkumar PawarMan on run for 23 years after murdering woman arrested in Thane districtA 52yearold man on the run for 23 years after allegedly murdering his sisterinlaw and kidnapping his nephew has been arrested from Maharashtras Thane district police said on Tuesday reported PTIThe accused Mohammad Tarbez Mohammad Idris Ansari was on Monday apprehended from Dombivli town where he was living under a fake identity for two decades an official said reported PTIAccording to the police Ansari had allegedly killed his younger brothers first wife and kidnapped his fivemonthold nephew in Virar town of Palghar district in 2002Senior Inspector Aviraj Kurhade of the MBVV said that on June 6 2002 the accused and his brothers second wife Afrin Banu allegedly brutally murdered Shabana Parvin 30 by slitting her throat with a sharp weapon and they kidnapped her fivemonthold son reported PTIThe Virar police had registered a case under IPC sections 302 murder 363 kidnapping and 34 Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention he saidThe victim was the first wife of Ansaris younger brother and Afrin Banu was the latters second wife the official said reported PTIInvestigations revealed that Ansari was opposed to his younger brothers marriage to the victim and later forced him to marry Afrin Banu he saidAssistant police inspector Datta Sarak said the police received a tipoff that the accused was hiding in Dombivli and they raided his rented room on Monday reported PTIHe said the accused had initially fled to Lucknow where he lived for three years before relocating to Dombivli where he spent the last 20 years under a false identity reported PTIAccording to the police the second accused Afrin Banu surrendered in 2015 but was acquitted due to lack of evidence The kidnapped child now a 23yearold man currently lives with his father and stepmother in LucknowWith inputs from PTI