Overview
- The crime branch named Sanket Rajaram Jagtap, Pritam Bharat Bhoir, Shivaji Shankar Dumbare and electrician Amol Ramesh Gunjal as the arrested suspects after tracing a PhonePe transfer and reviewing CCTV footage, and Jagtap allegedly confessed.
- Victim Sandeep Laxmikant Vishwakarma, 31, was reported missing on February 15 and his body was found the next day near a drain in the Mahape MIDC area.
- A post-mortem concluded he died from injuries sustained in an assault, prompting a murder case at Rabale MIDC police station.
- Investigators say phone records placed Vishwakarma in Vashi on February 15, including a call to a scrap dealer who reported being taken with him to a warehouse in Mahape.
- Police state the men beat Vishwakarma after allegedly catching him stealing poles and wires, transported the body by autorickshaw, and secured their police custody as the probe continues.