Overview
- Investigators say the suspects, Sadiq Javar and Naushad Mithani, were caught in Nagpur within four days of the stabbing of 78-year-old Iqbal Ibrahim Seliya in his Nagpada home on Monday, April 20.
- Police report that two men entered the flat while Seliya was alone and hacked him with a chopper more than 20 times before his family returned.
- Officers allege Javar sought to avenge a late 1990s police encounter that killed his uncle, gangster Sadiq Kalia, in an operation associated with encounter specialist Daya Nayak.
- An FIR based on the wife’s statement describes a separate feud over Rs 65 lakh she says her husband invested with Javar’s family and says tempers flared over delayed payouts.
- CCTV footage and technical surveillance traced the pair from Antop Hill through Vidyavihar and Kalyan to Nagpur, and police say both have described their planning during questioning as the probe continues.