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A 35-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in Mumbai after four persons assaulted him and forced him to lick a shoe on which one of the accused had spit, police said on Monday. The four men attacked Kasim Shaikh in public near a market in the Cuffe Parade area of South Mumbai on Friday night over some personal enmity, a police official said. During the incident, one of the accused spit on his shoe and forced Shaikh to lick it, he said. Shaikh managed to free himself from the attackers.