The wife of Mira Road-based restaurant and bar Sabari's manager had been frantically trying to contact him over phone since the past couple of days but he remained unreachable. On Thursday morning when she called up his number again, the person on the other end said she had dialed a wrong one, but she kept calling. Finally, after multiple calls, the person revealed that her husband had died and his body was lying inside a water tank in the restaurant along with another worker's. After the hotel's owner informed the cops, they recovered the bodies from the same location and registered a murder case. On tracking the manager's number, cops traced the main accused to Pune and arrested him on Friday.

Injury marks

The deceased have been identified as Harish Shetty, 42, the restaurant's manager and cleaner Naresh Pandit, 58. Speaking to mid-day, senior inspector of Mira Road police station, Sandip Kadam said, "Both the bodies had injury marks on their faces and backs. They were fully decomposed." Based on a complaint filed by the restaurant's owner, Gangadhar Payyade, the cops registered an FIR against a staff Kallu Yadav, who was arrested on Friday.