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THANE: A 27-year-old man, Deepak Mahankal was arrested by the Kalwa police for killing a 45-year-old. The accused boasted about the murder to his neighbours, which led to his arrest.
Mahankal had bashed Mangesh Kedar to death to take revenge, said VG Darekar, senior inspector of Kalwa police station.
“It was on December 31, Kedar told his family that he was going to sleep in his other house. As the deceased did not return, the family members went to check on him, only to find that he was stoned to death,” Darekar added.
A few neighbours had seen Mahankal bragging about killing the victim. When cops asked the neighbours, they told them about Mahankal.
Some neighbours witnessed the accused shamelessly boasting about the crime without fear of being caught, police said. Man boasts he killed sister’s ex-lover, gets arrested [Representative image] | Photo Credit: iStock Images
Key Highlights
The accused was planning to leave the city, but police nabbed him near the railway station.
The now-deceased man used to allegedly harass the sister of the accused when the two were in a relationship a few years ago.
Mumbai: In a suspected case of revenge killing, a 27-year-old man in Maharashtra’s Thane allegedly murdered his sister’s former lover for apparently harassing her. The accused later boasted of the killing to his neighbours, which landed him in police net.