States »WesPosted at: Jul 16 2021 3:38AM

Murder of teenager: Police arrest one, detain another

Thane, Jul 15 (UNI) District rural police on Thursday arrested a 24 year old and detained a juvenile for alleged murder of a teenager from a housing complex in Bapgaon of Kalyan taluka the police said.
SR. PI Dinesh Katke of the Padgha police station told this correspondent that the victim Soham Bajage, 15, went missing all off a sudden last evening at around 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday.
His family members carried out a frantic search for the missing boy but in vain.
Finally it was around 9.30 p.m. the body of the victim was found in a closed flat in the same building.
The victim had been strangulated to death the police said and sent the body for a postmortem to the government hospital.
Later during the probe it was revealed that the victim was done to death by two of his friends in a bid to snatch his golden chain weighing 1.50 tolas the police said.
The police officer said that offence under section 302,201 and 394 of the IPC has been registered against the duo with the police.
He gave the name of the arrested as Akshay Waghmare and added that the other accused a juvenile has been detained and sent to the remand home.
The local police are probing further into the crime it was stated.
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