Sanpada police have arrested six accused for lynching a 27-year-old Nerul man for loitering in Sanpada, mistaking him to be a thief.
The incident occurred on Tuesday night when the deceased, Lalit Kishan Goyal (27), who was working as a ward boy at KEM Hospital, was wandering in Sanpada.
“We’re investigating why the accused felt that he was a thief and what he was doing in Sanpada as he was a resident of Nerul. As of now, we’re procuring CCTV footage and making an attempt to determine the remaining accused,” a police officer from Sanpada police station stated.
A case of culpable murder not amounting to homicide below Part 304 of the IPC has been registered towards six by the cousin of the deceased, Hukumchand Govind Goyal (32), who additionally labored as a ward boy at KEM hospital.
In accordance with the criticism, the deceased used to work from 7am to 3pm after which return residence at Shirawane village in Nerul. On Tuesday, at round 7.30 pm, he acquired a name from police informing that his brother was assaulted by a couple of males and admitted to Vashi common hospital. On reaching the hospital, he was knowledgeable concerning the dying of the cousin.
The police acquired a name at 4.11pm by an unidentified particular person informing {that a} ‘thief’ was mendacity injured close to Gaodevi Temple in Sanpada Sector 5 and the caller sought assist. On calling again, the police discovered the caller’s quantity switched off and a staff of beat marshals reached the spot and located a person injured. He was taken to hospital in an auto rickshaw. On Wednesday and Thursday, the police managed to determine and arrest six of the accused.
The arrested have been recognized as Mayuresh Namdev Mhatre (26), Kapish Kesarinath Patil (33), Neeraj Arun Mule (21), Jitendra Chelaram Malvi (27), Ganesh Namdev Patil (29) and Gaurav Tukaram Gavali (19).
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