NAVI MUMBAI: The NRI Coastal Police have arrested a 32-year-old shopkeeper, Mohanlal Choudhary, for the murder of an 80-year-old man from Ulwe, whose decomposed body was found dumped in a trench at an isolated place in Ulwe on September 4.
The accused had allegedly strangulated the octogenarian at his shop on August 29, after he offered Rs 10,000 to the accused seeking a sexual favour from the accused’s wife.
Choudhary has been booked under section 302 (punishment for murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC. The accused had even accompanied the victim’s son when he went to lodge a missing complaint.
