Maharashtra: History-sheeter shoots man dead over financial dispute, injures two others; arrested

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A history-sheeter allegedly shot dead a 30-year-old man over a financial dispute and injured two others in Aurangabad city of Maharashtra, following which he was arrested, police said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

The incident took place in Baijipura area of the city around 7.45 pm on Wednesday, they said.

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"The accused, identified as Fayyaz Bashir Pathan (30), fired at Kutub Hamid in which the latter died. One Sameer Pathan was injured in the incident. Another person sitting in a nearby clinic was injured as a bullet hit his hand," a police official told the PTI on Thursday.

After the incident, Fayyaz ran away on a motorcycle. But the police nabbed him in Jehangir Colony area of Aurangabad in Maharashtra within eight hours of the incident, he said.

During the inquiry, the police found that Hamid had gone to the residence of the accused recently and used abusive words against his parents. When Fayyaz later came to know about it, he was enraged and fired at Hamid in a fit of anger, the police official said.

"After the incident, the police nabbed the accused in a few hours. Prima facie, the incident is a fallout of a financial dispute involving Rs 7,500. The accused is a history-sheeter. We are trying to know from where he got the pistol," he said, according to the PTI.

Following his arrest, the accused was presented in a local court, which remanded him in police custody till August 14.

Meanwhile, a 34-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Thane in Maharashtra for strangling his live-in partner in 2018.

Thane Sessions Judge Abhay J Mantri also fined Bhiwandi-resident Omprakash Kaul alias Adivasi Rs 30,000, which will be given to the three children of the deceased.

Kaul's wife was in her native town and he started living in with Sonia Adivasi (30), but the couple frequently quarrelled as he sent a part of his income to his wife, as per the prosecution.

In the intervening night of July 31 and August 1, 2018, he strangled Sonia and then hanged her body from the ceiling of the house.

Additional Public Prosecutor SH Mhatre said investigating officer Inspector VK Deshmukh and constable Vaibhav Chavan managed to get the victim's minor son from Uttar Pradesh to depose.

He was an eyewitness and his deposition nailed Kaul, the APP said.

(with PTI inputs)