The police on Tuesday arrested five people in Thane district for allegedly killing a 19-year-old woman by hitting her multiple times with a wooden log after her father refused to give them money to buy liquor, a police office said. The incident took place late on Monday at Indira Nagar in Kalyan town.
The prime accused in the case, Ghulam Sheikh alias Munna, 45, approached vegetable vendor Nissar Sayyed, 40, and demanded money for liquor. When the latter refused, an altercation broke out between the two, an officer of MFC police station said.
Some time later, Munna’s son Abdul Sheikh, accompanied by Shoeb Sheikh, Aziz Sheikh, and Shahid Shaikh (all aged between 20 and 22) allegedly barged into the victim’s residence and began assaulting him, he said.
When his wife and daughter tried to intervene, the accused assaulted them as well. The daughter, identified as Narame Bagwan, was struck multiple times with a wooden log and died on the spot. The accused fled the scene immediately after the assault.
