Mumbai: Facing financial crisis, 23-year-old man robs and kills commuter to fund wife’s delivery – Times Now

Mumbai: Another appalling incident came to light in Maharashtra’s Mumbai where a 23-year-old man killed a commuter on the Harbour line local as he was battered by the financial crisis and was unable to fund his wife’s delivery.

However, the incident couldn’t make him richer as the victim, identified as Neeraj Jaiswal had just Rs 70 in his purse.

Shaikh has now been held as he had admitted his crime to the Government Railway Police (GRP) saying that he robbed the victim as he was facing financial issues.

Victim came from decent background

The victim worked at zip making company in Ghatkopar. The authorities on March 29 had found a corpse of Panvel-CSMT local’s luggage compartment.

The victim was stabbed multiple times by the murderer and going by the CCTV footage, it was examined that the victim has boarded the compartment at Kurla station. All the passengers, except one, had got off. So the police concluded that besides Jaiswal, the remaining traveller at Kurla was the accused.

The authorities captured that the murderer Shaikh had boarded the local at Govandi. Later, he was seen jumping off the compartment, from the opposite side, at GTB Nagar.

Victim admitted his crime

However, he was traced and arrested and he confessed his crime of snatching Jaiswal’s mobile phone and wallet. However, he could just find Rs 70 in his wallet.

According to the report in the Times of India, senior inspector of CSMT GRP said that “Shaikh may have stabbed him out of fear that Jaiswal would go to the police after being robbed.”

Shaikh admitted that he was facing a financial crisis and was running short of money for his wife’s delivery who was admitted at Sion Hospital. Police identified Jaiswal a day after arresting Shaikh.

As per the senior inspector of the railway crime branch, “Jaiswal hails from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. He lived in Mankhurd and is survived by two of his brother Pankaj and Shivprabhat, who identified his body.”