Mumbai: Construction worker killed, body dumped in water tank

MUMBAI: City crime branch cracked the murder of a youth who disappeared after arriving here from Bihar a month back. Unit V of Mumbai Police arrested four persons for killing the youth as he was allegedly having an affair with the wife of one of the main accused. Rajesh Chaupal (23), a construction worker, is survived by parents and siblings.
The four held were Surendra Mandal (30), main accused, Shambu Saday (25), his brother Ramkumar (30) and Vijay Kirsay (52).Crime branch last week recovered the partly decomposed body from a water tank of an under-construction building at D N Road at CSMT.
Chaupals, from Jogeshwari, had complained to Oshiwara police that Rajesh had left on May 13 to come to Mumbai but did not reach. A team led by inspector Dhanshyam Nair received a tip-off that Rajesh has been murdered. Crime branch formed two teams, one was sent to Bihar to pick up Mandal and the Sadays, and another to Karnataka, to pick up Vijay Kirsay.
Surendra and his friends kidnapped Rajesh when he arrived at LTT, Kurla. They took him to the building, where Surendra hit Rajesh on his head, while others slit his throat, dumped his body into the tank, and poured two 25kg gunny bags of salt, said assistant commissioner of police Nitin Alaknure.