Avinash Lalta Prasad Soni and a few others were booked in 2009 in the murder of a man over brokerage money in Nalasopara. While the other accused were arrested, Soni fled to Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh and lived there for several years under a false identity
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The arrest of a 42-year-old man for his alleged involvement in a 16-year-old murder case in Maharashtra's Palghar district has brought to the fore his role in a similar crime committed in Uttar Pradesh in 1998, police said on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.
Avinash Lalta Prasad Soni and a few others were booked in 2009 in the murder of a man over brokerage money in Nalasopara. While the other accused were arrested, Soni fled to Itarsi in Madhya Pradesh and lived there for several years under a false identity, they said, reported PTI.
Acting on inputs, the police arrested Soni from Naigaon East, on the outskirts of Mumbai, on December 22, said senior inspector Vishal Valvi from Nalasopara police station.
The investigation took a dramatic turn when Soni admitted to a much older crime. He confessed to committing a murder on the day of Holi in 1998 in Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, along with four accomplices, said Valvi, reported PTI.
"We are taking further action after receiving information from Kotwali police station in Azamgarh," he said.
Man murders colleague, dumps body in water tank in Palghar; held
In another case, a 27-year-old worker has been arrested for allegedly killing his colleague and dumping his body in the water tank on the premises of a company in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday, reported PTI.
The accused, Asaram Rakesh, was nabbed within hours of the incident that occurred at an industrial estate in the Vasai area on Monday, an official said, reported PTI.
He said that the accused had a dispute with his colleague, Rakesh Singh, and allegedly attacked him with an iron rod on his head and dumped his body in a water tank on the company premises, reported PTI.
Their co-workers found out about the attack and alerted the victim's kin and the police, following which the body was fished out and sent for post-mortem, the official said.
A case was registered under section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and a probe is underway, he said.
Meanwhile, the police have arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly stabbing a labourer to death in Maharashtra's Palghar district within 24 hours of the crime, an official said on Monday.
The Vasai crime branch nabbed the accused, Kushnu Ramrai Hembram, a native of Jharkhand, in connection with the fatal attack that occurred on December 18, said senior inspector Aviraj Kurhade of the Mira-Bhayandar, Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police, reported PTI.
(With inputs from PTI)
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