Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 26 (ANI): A rag picker was arrested by Kurar Police in connection with the murder case of a Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) worker in Mumbai.

Police said Manish Kumar Prasad Shukla, a garbage collector allegedly killed a BMC sanitation worker, Sankesh Deepak Rane on Tuesday.

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"After receiving the information about the murder we immediately registered the case and launched the inquiry. Soon a garbage collector was arrested within 8 hours of the crime," police said.

As per the Kurar Police the garbage picker while interrogation said that a heated argument had broken out between the victim and accused over a collection of waste from each other's area after which Shukla killed Rane.

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Further investigation is underway and the accused will be soon produced before the court after the completion of the investigation, police said. (ANI)

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