A 60-year-old man was saved from being killed by the local crime branch in Palghar district and five accused including a 24-year-old relative of the victim has been arrested in connection with the crime. One of the accused was a relative of the victim who allegedly paid Rs 2 lakh to professional killers to kill the victim, apparently over business rivalry. However, before the accused could succeed in killing the victim, the assassination plot was leaked and the local crime branch officers learnt about it. Following which an investigation was initiated and one of the conspirators involved in the murder conspiracy was detained. He confessed to the crime and also revealed the names of the other accused involved in the crime. The senior inspector then registered a case against the accused and caught all the people involved from Nalasopara.

The accused were caught has been identified as Mithilesh Gupta alias Mounty (24), Parvez Ansari (27), Ajay Vidlan (28), Rizwan Khan (22), Firoz Ansari(29), Mangalu Gupta. According to the police sources, the case was registered in Nalasopara police station on September 7 after the local crime branch nabbed accused identified as Ajay Vidlan based on a tip-off that Mithilesh Gupta alias Mounty had given the contract to kill his uncle Roshanlal Gupta (60). During inquiry Vidlan revealed the names of his other three associates - Firoz, Rizwan and Parvez who were then nabbed on the same day by the crime branch officials.