Overview

• The accused, 21-year-old Aminur Ali Ahmed, allegedly murdered 35-year-old Abubakar Suhadli Mandal after the victim’s wife refused his repeated marriage proposals.
• Fatima Mandal filed a missing-person report on July 21 when her husband failed to return from work and informed police of Ahmed’s pressure to marry her.
• Investigators recovered Mandal’s body from Vashi Creek on July 23 after finding it stuffed in a sack and disposing of his clothes and belongings in a nearby drain.
• Ahmed has been booked under sections 103(1) for murder and 238 for destruction of evidence of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Navi Mumbai Police believe a friend assisted in the crime and have intensified their search amid heightened use of forensic and technical leads.