Mumbai Crime: Friends invite man for dinner, strangle him to death

If you have friends like these you truly dont need enemies Two youths from Wadavali invited a friend for dinner strangled him to death after feeding him sleeping pills carried his dead body on a bike for six kms and dumped it in the bushes Why Because they wanted Rs 25 lakh ransom from his family The duo was arrested for the murder on SundayGokul and Pramod invite Mayur for dinner Mayur asks if he can bring someone but the two ask him to come aloneThe case came to light on November 11 when Kolsewadi police registered a missing persons complaint from the family of one Mayur Dolase 21 who had gone missing since November 8 Meanwhile a day ago on November 10 constable VN Walvi of the Khadakpada police station reported an unidentified body found in the bushes by residents of Wadavali Gaon in the bushes When the message was forwarded to other police station the Kolsewadi police confirmed the next day that it was Mayurs bodyAt dinner Gokul and Pramod mix grounded sleeping pills into Mayurrsquos food and once hersquos asleep they strangle him to deathGoing for dinnerCops then began digging out his call details and found that the last person hed spoken to was a girl When cops contacted her she told them Mayur had called to tell her that he was going to meet his friends Gokul Pardeshi and Pramod Rajput his hometown friendsThe duo then place Mayur on a bike between them and drive to find a spot to dump himCops traced both of them and found Gokul at Beturkar Pada Kalyan When he was interrogated he claimed he knew nothing about and had no role in Mayurs murder In the meantime Pramod was traced to Aurangabad When we nabbed Pramod and interrogated him he confessed to killing Mayur He said he and Gokul did this to get easy money After calling Mayur home they instantly killed him said an officer from Kolsewadi Police StationAfter riding for 5 km the duo reached Wadavali Gaon and threw Mayurs body in a bush there IllustrationUday MohiteHow did they go about it They started with dinner of course On November 8 Mayur was called home by the duo for dinner Mayur asked them if he bring a friend along but Pramod and Gokul refused and asked him to come alone said an officer At dinner they fed him food laced with powdered sleeping pills and later Gokul strangulated him when he sleptDispose bodyAfter killing him both decided to dispose his body and then call his family for a Rs 25 lakh ransom Gokul took a bike they put Mayurs dead body between them and rode for five to six kilometres to dispose it said an officer They threw the body in the bushes at Wadavali Gaon but later got so scared that they dropped plan to seek ransom said assistant inspector Ajit Gavit adding We have registered a case against Pramod and Gokul under sections 302 201 and 34 of the IPCMayurs uncle Shivaji Dolas said Both the accused boys belong to our hometown They live just 1015 houses away But it is still unclear why they did it We learnt that Pramod a daily wage worker was in need of money and hatched this plan to get easy money The duo were produced in court on Monday and remanded in police custody for three daysRs 25 lakhThe ransom the two friends were planning to seekAlso view Photos 10 best places to spot Bollywood celebrities in Mumbai