34-year-old murdered after spat on WhatsApp

Aurangabad | Sunday | 14th October, 2018

Summary:

He was then brutally attacked and stabbed multiple times in full public glare.Soon after the incident, the suspects, all of them in their 20s, managed to flee from the spot. The police formed several teams to track them down. Moin managed to overpower the youths from the opposite side, who ended up retreating from there.Seething with anger that they had to retreat, a group of about half a dozen Patel youths launched a manhunt for Moin and managed to find him in the Beribagh area at around 6pm. Sources said that in the evening, Moin’s family lodged a complaint naming 14 accused belonging to the Patel clan for their alleged involvement in the murder.When contacted, Harsul police station’s senior inspector Maneesh Kalyankar confirmed the murder and said that a manhunt has been launched for the key suspects involved in the crime. Recently, he was also at loggerheads with members of the Patel clan over a piece of land and the putting up of banners in the area.The preliminary investigation has revealed that Moin got in to a spat on a WhatsApp group with members of the Patel clan over the registration of voter ID cards during the first half of the day on Sunday and it resulted in a heated argument with some of the local youths who were members of the WhatsApp group..