A 24-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly stabbing his former business partner to death over old enmity in Maharashtra's <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/member-of-thane-civic-body-s-tree-authority-booked-for-extortion-23186608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thane</a> district, police said.
According to the police, the accused Ankesh Gupta allegedly stabbed Sameer Pathere to death with a knife in the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/thane-gas-leak-from-tanker-on-mumbra-panvel-road-causes-panic-23185359" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mumbra</a> area on the intervening night of August 5 and August 6.
Gupta allegedly attacked the victim around 2.30 am and walked into the police station with the blood-stained knife at 4 am, an official said, adding that the deceased's body was sent for a post-mortem. The accused and the victim had gone into business jointly, but later separated due to some differences, and the murder was a fallout of old enmity, he said.
A case has been registered against the accused under section 302 (murder) of the IPC, while the police are on the lookout for Gupta's accomplice.
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A case has been registered against the accused under section 302 (murder) of the IPC

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