Sr. PI Ajaykumar Landge of the Panvel city police station told this correspondent that the deceased Prakash Yeshwant More, had on February 19, stabbed to death a mother and daughter at Panvel the police said.
The accused More was a resident of Paheni of Hingoli district and was in love with the girl which was opposed to by the family members of the girl. He was also not not allowed to meet her and hence it was on the ill-fated day he stabbed the duo Surekha Siddharth Balkhande, 37 and her daughter Sujata Balkhande, 19 to death at Dapoli in Panvel. He slit their throats and killed them and the police had then registered a case under section 302,324,341,449 and 397 of the IPC against the accused.
More was a neighbour of the victims, and wanted the marry the girl after the death of his wife. The family of the girl had rejected the proposal. He had then threatened to end his life. Even after the death of his wife he had attempted suicide which was stopped by the locals.
The police official said further that the police who rushed to the scene confirmed that the body of the person who was hanging by the tree was that of the wanted accused More. It was in the limits of the Narsi Namdeo Police station of Hingoli the incident had taken place and the body was sent for a postmortem to the government hospital at Hingoli and a case of accidental death registered the police said.(UNI)
