Driver who killed his colleague for Rs 15 lakh arrested in Palghar

Palghar A shipping company driver who had killedhis 72yearold colleague on May 13 has been arrested by the police on Monday Police said that the stolen amount ofRs 14 lakh recovered from himAccording to reports the accused identified as Rahul Yadav 28 had allegedly strangulated Raghuram Aital in his car and dumped his body along the roadside on the MumbaiAhmedabad highway in Palghar district of Maharashtra Waliv police station Assistant Police Inspector Sudhir Daherkar said Yadav allegedly strangulated Aital with a leather belt and fled with Rs 15 lakh cash he was carryingThe money was given to Aital for delivering it to a person based out of Borivli he said adding that the incident occurred when Aital was going to Borivli in the car driven by YadavAccording to Daherkar Yadav was in need of the money for his marriage which was scheduled in Diwali this year The accused was arrested on May 25 and booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code IPC Police have recovered Rs 1403000 from YadavIn another similar case a 34yearold man allegedly killed his wife because she could not bear a child for him The alleged incident occurred in April at Raval camp in Antop Hill where the accused hung her body from the ceiling fan after strangling her to death The accused was arrested on SundayThe accused identified as Naresh Sabharwal 34 and his wife Supriya 34 had been married since 2010 On April 7 the accused had an argument with his wife following which she locked herself in the bedroom However when she didnt come out of the room for a long time he broke the door open and found her body hanging from the ceiling fanBased on Nareshs statement the police filed a case of accidental death But the police claimed that they found inconsistencies in Sabharwalrsquos statements during probe meanwhile Supriyas body was then sent for postmortemSupriyarsquos brother Deepak Pandey approached the police on April 27 and gave a statement that the couple had frequent arguments and so she took the extreme stepOn Friday the police received the post mortem report which revealed that the victim was murdered The report further mentioned that there were no rope marks on Supriyarsquos neck and that she was strangled to death After which the police arrested Sabharwal for trying to portray the murder as a case of suicideWith inputs from PTITop News stories of the dayMumbai Derailment at Kurla disrupts Central Railway train servicesMumbai crime Popular salon stylist groped me says actressMumbai Behind PG medicos suicide constant barbs in WhatsApp groupsBlood banks that dont update stock status will lose licenceMumbai 50yearold critically injured in Jogeshwari gas explosion diesNarendra Modi visits mother Heeraben in Gandhinagar seeks blessingsMumbai crime FIR registered in Anurag Kashyaps tweet plaintMumbai Vikhroli Metro station to tower over EEH JVLRNarendra Dabholkar murder Defence lawyers clerk arrested from ThaneSuper volatile all this whileMumbai Civic body to find out if parking under open spaces is possibleMumbai crime Two fake cops trying to loot senior citizen arrestedMumbai Western Railways third AC local will roll out in DecemberDaawat to dineA Himalayan feastCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates