Overview
- Ankit Shahu, 20, was arrested nearly six months after 26-year-old Rahul Kumar Yogendra Prasad Kharvar disappeared on July 24, 2025 in Kurla, Mumbai.
- Investigators allege Shahu siphoned ₹30,000 from Kharvar’s Provident Fund and spent it on online gaming, triggering a dispute.
- Police say Shahu lured Kharvar to the Mithi riverbank near the airport wall and pushed him into the water around 8 pm.
- Officers cite financial transactions, call-detail records, and cell-tower location data placing both men at the site at the relevant time.
- A case has been registered under BNS sections 103, 238 and 316 and IT Act section 66, while searches continue to recover the body from the Mithi River.