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Maharashtra: Two bootleggers held for police informer’s murder

SURAT: The Surat crime branch sleuths arrested two persons on Wednesday for their alleged involvement in the murder of a businessman Bhavesh Mehta, who was also a police informer, in Navapur of Maharashtra on June 17.
The accused are associates of historysheeter Anil Kathi.
Four other accused involved in the murder are yet to get arrested.
Police arrested Aakash Oad (28) and Aakash Jorwal (20) for their alleged involvement in the murder of Mehta who was found murdered in a car near D J Agarwal School in Navapur of Maharashtra.
Bloodstained body of Mehta, a resident of Bhatar in Surat city, was tied using adhesive tape.
The case is being investigated by Navapur police.
Sources in the police said that Mehta was a police informer.
Both the accused are bootleggers and have been arrested multiple times in the past.
The accused informed police that they had thrashed Mehta on orders of Kathi, but Mehta succumbed to the injuries.
The accused duo was identified from the CCTV footage.
“The accused are historysheeter hence they were identified and we were in search for them,” said a police officer.
Anit Kathi has cases of issuing threats, assault, extortion and bootlegging registered against him.
He is currently active in bootlegging and it is suspected to have developed dispute with Mehta over his criminal activities, police sources informed.

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