Overview
- An unidentified man in his early 50s was found unconscious on a footpath along the Sion-Bandra Link Road in Dharavi and was declared dead at Sion Hospital.
- Police first logged the case as an accidental death, then reclassified it as murder after doctors reported a forceful blow to the head and severe facial injuries.
- Officers seized a blood-stained paver block or stone from the scene that they suspect was used in the assault, and they sent it for forensic testing.
- Dharavi Police detained three minors in the case and produced them in Juvenile Court, saying the attack followed the sleeping man's refusal to give them a matchbox.
- Investigators are still working to identify the victim and are reviewing nearby CCTV and checking missing-persons records, as the killing follows another high-profile Dharavi murder this month.