Mumbai: Four minors detained for killing 16-year-old teenager in Mankhurd

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The Mankhurd Police detected a murder of a 16-year-old boy, his dead body was found inside an abandoned bathroom in Lallubhai Compound and detained four minors for the crime, the police said.

According to the police, the cops identified and traced the alleged killers, all juveniles within 4 hours of the crime being reported. All the minors were produced before the Juvenile Justice Board on Friday.

The police said, on Thursday afternoon, the police had received information from a local resident about a dead body being found inside an abandoned bathroom in the area. The cops rushed to the spot and found the body of a teenager lying inside the bathroom. The body was shifted to the Rajawadi Hospital and the police registered an offence against an unknown persons under IPC section 302 (murder).

Senior Inspector Mahadeo Koli led the investigation of the matter and formed a team of police officials to investigate the case. During primary investigations, the deceased was identified as Tayyab Khan.

His grandmother, Bismillah Mehboob Sheikh, 55 said, "He was one of the two son's of my daughter Rukhsana. She has distanced herself from her husband and is at present in Saudi Arabia. She is working as a maid there."

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She said, "Tayyab was a student and studying in 11th standard in a Navi Mumbai based college. On January 4, he left home at around 7.30 pm and did not return back. I later went to sleep after waiting for him at night. The next day when he still did not return home I got worried. While we were waiting for his call, my other grandson got a call from the police and only then did we learn what happened to him."

Sources said, at around 2 pm, the police called Aslam, Tayyab's brother and called him to the police station where he was shown a picture of the dead body. When Aslam suspected it to be of his brother, he was taken to Rajawadi Hospital where he confirmed the dead body to be Tayyab.

He had major injuries on his head and shoulder. The injuries are due to sharp weapons, the cops suspect, sources added.
The police said, after the identification of the body, the police activated its informers network, who shared information that Tayyab had fought with some of the local boys previously and was seen fighting with them on the night of January 4.

Based on this information, the police officials immediately identified some of the boys and detained them for questioning who confessed to the killing.