The Maharashtra Police arrested an auto driver in Palghar district for allegedly killing a passenger over auto fare in 2001.
According to PTI, the police said the accused has been identified as 43-year-old Ali Mustakin Ali Sayyed. He was taken into custody from Talasari. The police decided to revisit the “cold case”.
Victim was stabbed repeatedly by the accused
The police said the victim, 56-year-old Moharam Ali Mohammad Ibrahim Ali, was stabbed repeatedly by the accused on October 14, 2001, over a dispute on auto fare, a senior police inspector said.
The senior cop said since then the accused had remained untraced. He said the police team launched the probe five months ago and tried to track the witnesses of the case. The senior police officer stated that they also conducted searches in the native town of the accused in Uttar Pradesh and took the help of informants.
Man dies of heart attack after his 8-yr-old son stuck in lift
In a separate case, a 51-year-old man died of a heart attack in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal after his eight-year-old son was stuck in an elevator (lift) due to sudden power cut, an official said.
Man lived on the third floor
The incident was reported in Jatkhedi locality under the jurisdiction of Misrod police station in the city on Monday night (May 26). The man who died was identified as Rishiraj Bhatnagar, he lived here on the third floor of an apartment in the locality with his wife and two sons.
Man suffered a panic attack
On the night of the incident, the man came downstairs and found his younger son there. He then asked him to go home and the boy took the elevator but moments later, there was a power outage, leading the man to suffer a panic attack and die. The power of the building was, however, restored within a couple of minutes and the child came out of the elevator safely.
Misord police station in charge Manish Raj Singh Bhadauriya said, “On the night of May 26, we received information from a private hospital that a person named Rishi Bhatnagar was brought to the hospital who was declared dead. Based on the information, a case was registered and the matter is being investigated. During the probe, it came to light that at around 10:30 pm on the incident day, he asked his son to go home and following the instruction he was heading through the lift. In the meantime, suddenly, there was a power cut in the building and he got worried, thinking of his child getting stuck in the lift. As a result of which, he suffered a panic attack and got unconscious.”
