The police on Tuesday arrested five people in Thane district for allegedly killing a 19-year-old woman by hitting her multiple times with a wooden log after her father refused to give them money to buy liquor, a police office said. The incident took place late on Monday at Indira Nagar in Kalyan town.

The prime accused in the case, Ghulam Sheikh alias Munna, 45, approached vegetable vendor Nissar Sayyed, 40, and demanded money for liquor. When the latter refused, an altercation broke out between the two, an officer of MFC police station said.