Thane, Oct 19 A 30-year-old man was hacked to death, and his associate was injured with sharp weapons over a business rivalry in Maharashtra’s Thane district in the wee hours of Monday, police said.
The victim, Ganesh Ramkumar Yadav, was sitting near an office of the Shiv Sena in Badlapur West around 12.50 am when an armed group attacked him and his associate with choppers, swords, and axes, an official said.
According to the victim’s family, the gruesome attack was a fallout of a long-standing business dispute about building material supply contracts in the area.
The accused, Avinish Singh, Sandeep Singh, Yash Gaware alias Batlya, Prathamesh Belhe, Kalpesh Belhe, Rinki Kumar, Abhishek Gawande, Sushant, and two to three unidentified persons attacked Yadav and his associate Abu Hallal Sheikh.
Yadav and Sheikh sustained grievous injuries, but the former was declared dead at a hospital, the official said.
The Badlapur West police have registered a case under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Arms Act and the Maharashtra Police Act, and have detained a few of the suspects, he added.
(PTI News)
