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Mistaken for robber, man beaten to death in Mumbai

ByMegha Sood
May 26, 2023 11:01 AM IST

Police said that they were informed about the assault at 4am on Thursday and Pravin Lahane was found injured on the ground when a team rushed to the scene

A 26-year-old man was beaten to death in Mumbai’s Borivali East after being mistaken for a robber, police said, and added they arrested five people for the assault on Friday.

Lahane fell unconscious at Kasturba Marg Police Station. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Lahane fell unconscious at Kasturba Marg Police Station. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

“We arrested the five...for death due to rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, assault with a weapon, rioting, etc,” said deputy police commissioner (zone 12) Smita Patil.

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Police said that they were informed about the assault at 4am on Thursday and found Pravin Lahane injured on the ground when a team rushed to the scene. Police said that they learnt a group of men assaulted him after mistaking him for a thief.

Lahane later fell unconscious at Kasturba Marg Police Station and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.

Police said Lahane was drunk when he entered a demolished building. “CCTV footage from the area shows him jumping across a boundary wall due to which the people there might have mistaken him for a robber and beat him,” said an officer, who did not want to be named.

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