THANE: The Mumbra police arrested a woman, her sister and lover for brutal murder of a man who was found with slit throat in Mumbra last week.
The accused, Mohammad Nafis Shaikh (3)3, is an auto driver, Rukhsar 30 is wife of deceased, Reshma Sayyed (28) sister-in-law of deceased have been arrested for hatching the conspiracy to eliminate Ahmed Shaikh whose body with slitted throat was found in Mittal area last week.
A senior police officer informed that the accused man and deceased were good and old time friends, but Mohammed had an illicit relationship with his wife Rukhsar. “Prima facia it seems that the deceased somehow had got to know about their relation and thus the accused planned to eliminate him as he was proving a hurdle in their relationship,” said a police officer.
So in a bid to eliminate him the trio hatched a plan and during the wee hours of 27 February, the unsuspecting victim was taken to a secluded place near MM valley and Mittal ground where both of them boozed for sometime. The victim then somehow got uneasy and started to throw in the nullah. It was then the accused attacked him and slit his throat and even stabbed him a couple of times and fled away. The police following the technical analysis picked him up for questioning and he revealed the truth and reason behind the murder as the deceased husband was proving hurdle in their relationship.
Meanwhile, another body of an unidentified man was found on a road leading to Diva from Mumbra near Sabe village on Tuesday. The police said that the body was smashed with some hear weapon on the face and the police have registered a case at Mumbra police station and further.