Overview
- Palghar police arrested Dinesh Prajapati, 27, and Sandeep Tiwari, 35, within eight hours after a headless body was found Monday near Pelhar off National Highway 48.
- Investigators identified the victim as 32-year-old Ashok Singh Karam Singh Rajput, a native of Pali in Rajasthan.
- Police say the suspects were tied to the victim through a shared grocery business and that a financial dispute led to the attack.
- Officers report the victim was beaten with bamboo, stabbed multiple times, and beheaded, with the head and torso dumped at different sites to hinder identification.
- The crime team used CCTV, phone and vehicle analysis, drones, and forensics to recover the severed head and the victim’s phone from a riverbank, and they registered murder and evidence-disappearance charges under India’s new Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.