Man bludgeons woman to death in Maharashtra as crowd watches
Woman’s kin allege police inaction when he attacked her earlier.
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Police at the crime scene in Palghar’s Vasai, Tuesday. (PTI)Police arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly murdering his 22-year-old friend in Vasai area of Palghar district Tuesday.
According to police, the accused and the victim were in an relationship for the past six years and he attacked her with an industrial spanner multiple times leading to the murder.
Police suspect that the accused, Rohit Yadav, committed the crime on the suspicion that the woman, Aarti Yadav, was in a relationship with another person.
In a purported video of the incident, which has surfaced on social media, many people were seen witnessing the crime without trying to stop the accused.
According to Aarti’s family, Yadav had allegedly assaulted and threatened her around 10 days ago. According to police, Aarti and Yadav, both live in the same locality in Nalasopara (East).
Yadav, who hails from Haryana, lives alone in Santosh Bhavan in Nalasopara and works as labourer. However, since the past two months he has been unemployed. On Tuesday morning, when Aarti, who works in a private company, was heading to her office, Yadav stopped her in Gavrayi Pada in Waliv, police said.
Yadav was trying to speak to her as she had stopped talking to him lately. When Aarti did not listen to him, police said, Rohit started arguing and later took out an industrial spanner from his bag and attacked Aarti multiple times.
There are nearly 16 wounds on Aarti’s body, said a police officer. After the incident, Yadav sat near Aarti’s body. He was arrested on charges of murder. “We are in the process of identifying and recording the statement of the witnesses,” said Sachin Sanap, assistant inspector and the IO. CCTV footage showed that among those who were witnessing the crime, one of them tried to stop Yadav but could not overpower him.
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