Mumbai: Customer stabs fruit-seller to death
Mumbai, March 6: A customer in the Null Bazar area of Mumbai stabbed a fruit seller to death after a dispute over a money transaction on Saturday. The Crime Branch arrested the accused when he was trying to flee from the state.
"The accused Sohrab Qureshi (25) had a dispute with a fruit seller over money transaction after which stabbed the fruit seller Babuji Qureshi (55) and attacked his son Chhotu Qureshi (30). Babuji died on the spot while Chhotu has been admitted at JJ Hospital for treatment," Vinayak Chauhan of the Crime Branch said.
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The accused ran from the spot after the incident, he added.
An FIR was registered under Section 302 (Punishment for murder), 307 (Attempt to murder), 323 (Punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (Insult intended to provoke the breach of peace), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation), 201 (Causing disappearance of evidence of the offence or giving false information to screen offender) and 37(1).
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As per the information by the officer, the Crime Branch laid a trap and arrested the accused from the Malvani area in Malad while he was trying to flee to Uttar Pradesh.
-PTC News
