Latest News | One Held for Pushing Man to Death at Quarry in Palghar

Palghar, Apr 5 (PTI) The police have arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly pushing a man into a stone quarry and killing him over a financial dispute in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Friday.

The accused, Balram Lalchand Yadav, a resident of Nalla Sopara, has been arrested in connection with the death of Brijesh Kamtaprasad Chourasia (41), whose body was found in a stone quarry in January, deputy commissioner of police - Zone III- Virar Jayant Bajbale said.

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At the time, Chourasia's sister expressed serious doubt that some unidentified persons had murdered him.

Following a probe, the police zeroed in on Yadav who was seen with Chourasia at the quarry on the day he died, the official said.

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Yadav has claimed that he had borrowed Rs 55,000 from the victim and had returned Rs 22,000. But Chourasia had harassed and tortured him and forced him to sign on a stamp paper stating that he had borrowed Rs 3 lakh, he said.

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