Overview

• The victim was identified as 60-year-old Ramlakhan Yadav, who died at Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali West after returning with chest pain following an initial discharge.
• Investigators said the case was upgraded to Section 103(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for murder after an earlier FIR under Section 109(1) for attempt to murder.
• Two accused, Avdhesh Chauhan and Sanjay Chauhan, were produced in court and remanded to police custody until September 12, according to Kandivali police.
• Police said the assailants forced their way into Yadav’s home, claimed the house as theirs, and beat him and his family with bamboo sticks, wooden stumps and stones, causing severe head and torso injuries.
• Officers described a long-running property dispute that allegedly involved relatives and additional associates, and earlier reports from police named a third suspect, Kamlesh Chauhan, as arrests and evidence collection continued.