Thane, Jan 17 (PTI) Police have registered a case against a shopkeeper in Maharashtra's Thane district for stocking and selling the banned nylon 'manja', days after the death of a 47-year-old man after the kite string slit his throat, an official said on Tuesday.

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The incident took place in Bhiwandi town on Sunday night when the man was heading home on a motorcycle. The kite string got entangled around his neck and slit his throat, he said.

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The police got a tip-off that a shopkeeper in the area was selling the banned nylon kite string, an official from Bhiwandi town police station said.

A police team raided the shop and seized the kite string stock from there, he said.

A case was registered against the shopkeeper under Indian Penal Code Sections 188 (disobedience to an order lawfully promulgated by a public servant), 290 (public nuisance) and 291 (continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue), the official said.

No arrest has been made so far, he added.

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