27 May,2019 07:42 PM IST | | mid-day online desk
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Palghar: A shipping company driver who had killed his 72-year-old colleague on May 13 has been arrested by the police on Monday. Police said that the stolen amount of Rs 14 lakh recovered from him.
According to reports, the accused identified as Rahul Yadav, 28, had allegedly strangulated Raghuram Aital in his car and dumped his body along the roadside on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district of Maharashtra. Waliv police station Assistant Police Inspector Sudhir Daherkar said Yadav allegedly strangulated Aital with a leather belt and fled with Rs 15 lakh cash he was carrying.
"The money was given to Aital for delivering it to a person based out of Borivli," he said, adding that the incident occurred when Aital was going to Borivli in the car driven by Yadav.
According to Daherkar, Yadav was in need of the money for his marriage, which was scheduled in Diwali this year. The accused was arrested on May 25 and booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Police have recovered Rs 14,03,000 from Yadav.
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In another similar case, a 34-year-old man allegedly killed his wife because she could not bear a child for him. The alleged incident occurred in April at Raval camp in Antop Hill, where the accused hung her body from the ceiling fan after strangling her to death. The accused was arrested on Sunday.
The accused, identified as Naresh Sabharwal (34) and his wife Supriya (34), had been married since 2010. On April 7, the accused had an argument with his wife following which she locked herself in the bedroom. However, when she didn't come out of the room for a long time, he broke the door open and found her body hanging from the ceiling fan.
Based on Naresh's statement, the police filed a case of accidental death. But the police claimed that they found inconsistencies in Sabharwal's statements during probe; meanwhile, Supriya's body was then sent for post-mortem.
Supriya's brother, Deepak Pandey, approached the police on April 27 and gave a statement that the couple had frequent arguments and so she took the extreme step.
On Friday, the police received the post mortem report, which revealed that the victim was murdered. The report further mentioned that there were no rope marks on Supriya's neck and that she was strangled to death. After which, the police arrested Sabharwal for trying to portray the murder as a case of suicide.
(With inputs from PTI)
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