27-year-old labourer arrested for killing his friend in Navi Mumbai

A 27-year-old man, who is a daily wage labourer, has been arrested by the NRI coastal police for allegedly killing his friend.

The accused, who is a resident of Karave village in Nerul, has been identified as Vijay Mhaske and the victim as Rupesh ailas Roopsingh Thakur (35).

On Friday evening, October 22, the arrested accused allegedly killed his friend, a scarp vendor, by smashing his head with a cement block inside a parked school bus near Kendriya Vihar complex in Seawoods, Nerul on Friday evening.

According to reports, on Friday around 7.30 pm, the accused and his friend Rupesh Thakur were consuming liquor in an unused school bus parked on the service road near Kendriya Vihar complex in Seawoods. At that time, in a drunken stupor, Thakur sought sexual favour from Mhaske by insisting to indulge in sodomy with him.

Mhaske objected to his demand, when Thakur turned furious and forced himself on Mhaske, who retaliated by assaulting him. As they exchanged blows, Mhaske picked up a cement block from near the bus and smashed it on Thakur's head, when he was inebriated under influence of liquor, accounts stated.

Ankur Shelar, police sub-inspector of NRI coastal police station said that after arresting the accused, the murder motive was revealed. The accused Mhaske has been booked under section 302 of the IPC for punishment for murder.