Thane: Two held for killing man, burying body

KALYAN: The stray dogs in Kalyan helped police find body of 45-year-old labour Mukesh Poreddivar, who was murdered before being buried inside debris at an under construction canteen site. The accused and victim used to work at the same site.
In this connection, the local Mahatma Phule police has arrested two accused including one labour Gulam Ali Khan alias Bablu (24) who was working with deceased and Gulam's friend Aqeel Khan (25).
The police has found that the deceased Mukesh and accused Bablu were working together as labourers at same railway's canteen construction site situated at Valdhuni area in Kalyan (East).
According to police, probe in the case has revealed that both accused and victim used to fight over cooking after drinking alcohol.
Fed up with this Bablu decided to kill Mukesh and for the same he took help of his Ulhasnagar based friend Aqeel. The duo as per plan on October 8 killed Mukesh by attacking him with hard object when he was sleeping, said a police official.
Vivek Pansare, deputy commissioner of Police, zone 2 of Thane police said, "The probe revealed that after killing Mukesh the duo packed his body in a gunny bag and buried his body at the construction site."
"The incident came to light when other labourers working at site saw stray dogs from locality barking and digging at site and when they checked the spot they were shocked to find body parts," said NK Bankar, senior police inspector from Mahatma Phule police station.
The locals later informed to local police who filed an FIR and started a probe in the case. Sambhaji Jadhav, an investigator said, "During probe we found Bablu to be missing from work for two days and when we grilled him, he confessed about the murder. Both the accused have been arrested."
The police on Monday produced them before Kalyan session court which remanded them to police custody.