A month later, Kalyan railway track death turns into murder

Kalyan railway police investigating a case informed that a case of accident was found to be a murder.

Accordingly they have booked Shankar Pingla (25), Yashawant Bhagat (29), and Antya Paradhi (20), under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on Thursday and remanded them to police custody until November 1, said senior police inspector Jagtap of Kalyan railway police station.

Interrogations revealed that Pingla, the deceased wife’s cousin along with three of his friends had thrashed Bangaare and threw his body on railway track to prove that it was suicide.

The police, initially, registered a case of accidental death.

Rama Bangaare, the uncle of the deceased searched his daughter-in-law Chhaya’s village at Shiroli and registered a missing complaint with Shahapur police station on September 26 on not finding him. Railway police initially informed that his nephew was killed in a railway accident.

On the uncle’s request, further investigations revealed that it was a case of murder, as per sub-inspector SN Pednekar of Kalyan railway police station.

On September 21, Sanjay Bangaare had a clash with his wife Chhaya, at hers village in Shiroli, when she refused to accompany. Fed up her cousin along with three friends took the deceased to an isolated spot and thrashed him. Once he was unconscious they threw him in a track where he died.