Overview

• Sunil Kharpat Prajapati, 35, was located on a vessel at Okha Port in Dwarka, Gujarat, and arrested after officers inspected more than 200 ships.
• According to investigators, he attacked colleague Dilip Saroj on September 7 in Vasai (East) during a dispute over employer-transferred meal money.
• Saroj died during treatment, and the case was upgraded from voluntarily causing hurt to murder under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
• Two Crime Detection Branch teams used technical intelligence to trace Prajapati, who was working under a changed identity as a welder and preparing to sail.
• He was taken into custody on October 2 and brought to Palghar, and a court has remanded him in judicial custody for 14 days as the investigation continues.