In a chilling reminder of the stoneman murders by Raman Raghav in the 1960s, the bodies of two men with their heads crushed were found in Palghar district on Thursday. In the first case the body was found when a local saw it in a pit after a few days, in the second, a witness saw two people beat each other up, but by the time he took the police to the spot, one of them was killed. In a strange coincidence, the surname of the victims is the same.

On Thursday, the Arnala coastal police found the body of a man around 30 to 35-years-old in a pit. The autopsy revealed he died due to multiple injuries to his head. The deceased was later identified as Haresh Hadal, 40, from Maharmbpada village, Boisar.