Mumbai: Petty fight over sprinkles of water leads to senior citizen's death in Mulund, one held

The accused in police custody. Pic/ Rajesh Gupta

A petty fight over just a few sprinkles of water resulted in the death of a 64-year-old man in Mulund in Mumbai on Wednesday night. The deceased, an owner of a dairy, was closing his shop when his worker spilled some water on a pedestrian which enraged him and he began to beat the worker, the police said.

Meanwhile, the owner, Suresh Pitkar tried to intervene during which the pedestrian punched him on the chest that led to his death. Accused has been arrested, the police said.

According to the police, the incident took place at around 10:30 pm, when 50-year-old Shivchandra Yadav, a worker with Gopal Dairy Farm was washing utensils at the footpath. Kailash Jadhav, a local resident, was passing from the spot and some water spilled on Jadhav, who got into a fight with Yadav over it.

"Jadhav slapped Yadav and started abusing him. Pitkar came to his rescue and asked Jadhav not to hit him," an official from Mulund Police said.

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"But this did not make him stop and Jadhav started beating Pitkar," he added.

Jadhav punched Pitkar in his chest two-three times. Pitkar collapsed on the spot. Yadav immediately called for help and took Pitkar to MT Agarwal Hospital but he was declared dead on arrival by doctors. Mulund Police were informed immediately about the incident, the police said.

As soon as the complaint was reported, cops launched a manhunt for Jadhav and arrested him within 30 minutes, the police said.

"He was booked for IPC 302 (murder), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (breach of peace). He was produced in a court on Thursday that remanded him in police custody till January 16," said Senior Inspector Narayan Majge.