India News | Pavement-dweller Found Dead with Head Smashed

Mumbai, Dec 13 (PTI) A 60-year-old pavement-dweller was found dead with his head smashed using a concrete block near Mahalaxmi railway station in Mumbai, police said on Sunday.

He was found dead on Saturday morning by his wife, who was sleeping nearby, they said.

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"Victim Naresh Shinde and his 55-year-old wife were sleeping on the footpath near the railway station. Around 5 am on Saturday, when his wife woke up, she was shocked to see him lying in a pool of blood with his head smashed with a concrete block," a police official said.

On being alerted, a police team came to the spot and rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead before admission, he said.

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A case under IPC section 302 (murder) has been registered against an unidentified person at N M Joshi Marg police station.

"The motive behind the crime is yet to be known," he said.

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