News Desk, AnyTV, Mumbai
Published by: Amit Mandal
Updated Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:19 PM IST
Summary
It was initially suspected that the youth who died was a pavement dweller, whose bed was accidentally set on fire while intoxicated. But the reality came out from the CCTV footage.
A man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly killing a friend after the friend tried to blackmail him into stealing a mobile phone. The incident took place at the CPWD godown in Antop Hill area in the early hours of Saturday, a police official said. The half-burnt body of Abdul Sayyed (29), who worked with a civil contractor, was found. It was initially suspected that he was a sidewalk dweller whose bed accidentally caught fire while intoxicated. But the CCTV footage of the area showed that there was another person with him and the autopsy revealed that he had been beheaded.
After questioning Syed’s owner, the man seen in the CCTV footage was identified as Ashquddin Sheikh (27), a house painter. He was arrested on Monday in Mumbai-Howrah Gitanjali Express near Dadar station in Mumbai. During interrogation, Sheikh, a resident of Kismatnagar in Bengalpura, told the police that he had stolen a mobile phone from Pune.
The officer said that Syed was aware of this and demanded Rs 3,000 from Shaikh for not telling the police. Shaikh gave him Rs 2,000 but Syed was asking for Rs 1,000 more. On Saturday, Shaikh took Syed to the CPWD godown after consuming liquor together and allegedly hit him on the head with a stone and later set the bed sheet on fire.
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A man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly killing a friend after the friend tried to blackmail him into stealing a mobile phone. The incident took place at the CPWD godown in Antop Hill area in the early hours of Saturday, a police official said. The half-burnt body of Abdul Sayyed (29), who worked with a civil contractor, was found. It was initially suspected that he was a sidewalk dweller whose bed accidentally caught fire while intoxicated. But the CCTV footage of the area showed that there was another person with him and the autopsy revealed that he had been beheaded.
After questioning Syed’s owner, the man seen in the CCTV footage was identified as Ashquddin Sheikh (27), a house painter. He was arrested on Monday in Mumbai-Howrah Gitanjali Express near Dadar station in Mumbai. During interrogation, Sheikh, a resident of Kismatnagar in Bengalpura, told the police that he had stolen a mobile phone from Pune.
The officer said that Syed was aware of this and demanded Rs 3,000 from Shaikh for not telling the police. Shaikh gave him Rs 2,000 but Syed was asking for Rs 1,000 more. On Saturday, Shaikh took Syed to the CPWD godown after consuming liquor together and allegedly hit him on the head with a stone and later set the bed sheet on fire.