Palghar crime: Man held for killing paramour after dispute

An official on Tuesday said that the police have arrested a 32yearold man for allegedly killing his paramour after a dispute in Maharashtras Palghar district reported news agency PTIThe accused who lived at a village in Manor had divorced his wife and got into a relationship with the 40yearold victim a resident of Nallasopara in the Vasai area of the district the official from Manor police station said while sharing an update on the Palghar crime reported PTIOn Sunday afternoon the victim came to the mans house and questioned him over his alleged affair with another womanThe victim told the man that she would complain against him to the police the official said while sharing an update on the Palghar crime reported PTIThis led to a wordy duel between the two following which the accused allegedly beat up the victim and attacked her with a marble tile he saidSome people later rushed the victim to a hospital where she was declared dead the official saidAfter being alerted about the incident police initiated a probe and sent the body to a government hospital for postmortemThe accused was arrested on Monday and booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 1031 murder 115 voluntarily causing hurt 3512 criminal intimidation 3513 and 352 intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace the police saidPalghar man wanted for 2019 murder held from Karnataka after cops track ecommerce orderA man wanted in a 2019 murder case in Nalasopara in Palghar district was nabbed from neighbouring Karnataka after police tracked an order he placed on an ecommerce site reported PTIA 28yearold man was stabbed to death during a bar altercation in March 2019 leading to a case against five persons for murder use of dangerous weapons and other offences under the Indian Penal Code reported PTIWhile four of the accused Abhishek Raviprakash Pandey Sagar Ajay Rajoria Rohit Amarnath Dubey and Saurabh Jayshankar Pandey were held at the time the fifth accused Babu alias Rakshit Vasudev Pujari absconded reported PTIA team of Crime Unit II under senior inspector Samir Ahirrao recently managed to trace Pujaris family in Karnataka and found out they were in touch with a man in Ballehunur in Chikmagalur there the official said reported PTIWe also traced a mobile number linked to the same person This number was also linked to a bank account which we found belonged to Pujaris father After Pujari placed an order on an ecommerce platform we tracked the delivery location and arrested him from Chikmagalur the official saidPujari was held on February 13 said Assistant Commissioner of Police Crime Madan Ballal He was brought to Vasai on transit remand and handed over to the Tulinj police station for further action Ballal saidWith inputs from PTI