Mumbai Crime: 50-year-old man beaten to death in front of children in Sakinaka, 4 held

17 March,2021 07:07 AM IST |  Mumbai  |  mid-day online correspondent

The accused hit Raiz and also assaulted him with a wooden plank. When his children tried to intervene, they were hit too

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Four people were arrested for beating a 50-year-old man to death and assaulting his two children near a tea stall in Sakinaka, Andheri (East) recently.

The incident took place around 11 am outside a tea stall in Khadi number 3 in Sakinaka on Saturday.

The deceased, Raiz Khan, was having tea with his son and daughter when the main accused, Shakir Ali Siddiqui Khan, 32, along with his aides Nasir Khan, 33, Gulfam Sayyed, 28, and Rabiul Sayyed, 35, allegedly reached the spot and beat up the three victims, stated a report in The Indian Express. All the accused and the victim are labourers.

The accused hit Raiz and also assaulted him with a wooden plank. When his children tried to intervene, they were hit too. The victim collapsed on the spot and was rushed to Rajawadi hospital where he was declared dead before admission.

"The main accused had a past enmity with the victim's daughter. They had got into a fight in the past as well," said Balwant Deshmukh, senior police inspector of Sakinaka police station.

The accused were produced before a magistrate court on Sunday and remanded in police custody till March 17.

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