Mumbai crime news: Police arrest man for murdering his bank manager girlfriend in Navi Mumbai hotel

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Mumbai Police Tuesday arrested a man for murdering his 35-year-old girlfriend in a room of a hotel in Navi Mumbai. Police said that the accused, Shoeb Sheikh, allegedly strangled her.

The police had received information that Sheikh, 24, had committed an offence and was planning to flee to his hometown. Based on a tip-off, the Mumbai police apprehended the accused from his house in the western suburb of Mumbai's Saki Naka in the early hours of the day before he could flee to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh, a Mumbai Police official said.

On interrogation, the accused revealed that he had checked into a hotel in Navi Mumbai with his girlfriend Amy alias Amit Ravindra Kaur (35) on Monday, he said. Sheikh suspected that Kaur was having an affair with another man and allegedly strangled her to death in a fit of rage, the official added.

He said the crime came to light after the Mumbai Police received a tip-off that Sheikh was involved in some illegal activity, following which they reached his home in Sakinaka. During his interrogation, Sheikh told police about the murder, he said, adding that the Mumbai Police then informed their counterparts in Turbhe area of Navi Mumbai.

"A team of police in Turbhe rushed to the hotel where they found the woman's body inside a room," the official said. He said the victim was working as a manager at a Navi Mumbai branch of IDFC Bank. She was a resident of Sion Koliwada area in Mumbai.

After the recovery of the body, Sheikh was arrested under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including 302 (Punishment for murder), the official added.

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Meanwhile, a court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted a 33-year-old man who was accused of stabbing and killing his sister's boyfriend.

Principal district and sessions judge S B Agarwal acquitted Ganesh Babu Reddy by giving him the benefit of the doubt.

The copy of the order passed on January 2 was made available on Monday.

According to the prosecution, Reddy stabbed to death Akash Pramod More on November 5, 2019, in the Wagle Estate area of Thane city.

The victim was having an affair with Reddy's sister, and the latter did not approve of the same, they said.

The court noted that none of the eyewitnesses supported the prosecution's case and turned hostile during the trial.

It also highlighted that the recovery or discovery of evidence by the accused pertained to a location already known to the police, making it less credible.

The court held that the evidence did not connect the accused to the crime beyond a reasonable doubt and acquitted Reddy in the case. (With inputs from agencies)