Maha: Labourer bludgeons contractor to death, held

Palghar, June 4: A 38-year-old contractor was bludgeoned to death by a labourer over a monetary dispute in Vasai town of Maharashtra’s Palghar district, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place at Diwanman area of the town on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, an official said.
The victim Mohammad Moin was beaten to death by a labourer, following a dispute over wages, the deputy commissioner of police Zone II, Vasai Poornima Chowgule-Shringi said.
The accused allegedly attacked the victim with a wooden plank and killed him, she said.
During the investigation, the police on Sunday traced the 25-year-old accused to the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in neighbouring Mumbai from where he was boarding a train to his hometown in Bihar, the police official said. (PTI)