- Murder incident in the city’s Wagadi complex during the night
- 3 minor boys in police custody
YavatmalLast night, 3 minor boys brutally murdered a 55-year-old youth by stabbing him with knives and crushing him with a stone in the Waghadi complex located on Arni Marg of the city. The name of the deceased is Laxman Mansu Jadhav 55 resident behind Wagadi Power House Arni Road Yavatmal. He used to work as a wage laborer. According to the complaint lodged with the police by the relatives of the deceased, the murder was carried out by 3 minor boys on the suspicion of witchcraft.
This incident of murder took place on the way to the Home Guard office of Wagadi area during the night of 11 February at 10 pm. In the murder case, all three 17-year-old law-fighting minor boys are involved. They were taken into custody by the police in the early hours after the incident. In this case, 3 minor boys have been taken into custody by the police on the complaint of Yuvraj Laxman Jadhav 35, resident of Waghadi, son of deceased Laxman Mansu Jadhav in Avadhutwadi police station.
The minors committed the crime on suspicion of doing witchcraft
According to the complaint lodged by Yuvraj, son of deceased Laxman Jadhav at Avadhutwadi police station, he lives in Waghadi with his wife and children, while his father Laxman Jadhav with his wife Rukhma Jadhav, 50, lives separately in their neighbourhood, and at Gawandi. Used to work, the three minor boys who killed him for attacking his father are friends of each other, they did not do any work.
In Waghadi, when these boys used to go in front of the house of the deceased, they used to threaten his father and he used to have a knife, about a month ago a minor boy saw Yuvraj on the way and said that your father does jadutona. Govind Shelke and Vinod Shelke have died due to their magic, during which this boy threatened to kill his father with a knife. Due to which he had instructed his father to go to work and not go through the road in front of the power station and come back through the home guard office.
On February 11, Yuvraj had gone to work at the dhaba, when his wife Meena Jadhav reached his dhaba last night and his father Laxman Jadhav was lying in the ground in front of the home guard office in a bloody condition and stabbed him in the chest with a knife. When both of them reached there, then Lakshman was lying in a dead state, as well as the blood-soaked chest was seen with a knife, while his slippers and mobile and cycle were lying at a distance.
In this murder, the three minor boys together filed a complaint on suspicion of witchcraft of his father and murder of Laxman Jadhav with the intention of taking revenge. On receiving the information of this incident to the Avadhutwadi police in the night, the associate police officers, including SHO Manoj Kedare, reached Wagadi and took stock of the incident.
At this time, after performing Panchnama, the body of the deceased was sent for north investigation. There was a stir in the campus after this incident. Meanwhile, police started the investigation of the incident and took possession of the three minor boys who carried out this incident in the early hours. In this case, a case of murder has been registered at Avadhutwadi police station and investigation has been started under the leadership of SHO Manoj Kedare.