2 Brothers Held For Killing Cab Driver, Dumping Body Near Lonavala: Maharashtra Police

Senior inspector of the Virar police station, Suresh Varade, said the accused had hired the cab of the victim to go to Lonavala, a popular hill station in Pune district, from Mumbai last month.

Police have arrested two brothers on charges of killing a cab driver after an argument over toll payment and dumping his body near a village off the Mumbai-Pune expessway, an official said on Thursday. The Virar police under the Mira Bhayandar Vasai Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate of Thane-Palghar districts arrested the duo - Yusuf Chaus (35) and Mustaqin Chaus (25) - on Wednesday, nearly two weeks after the crime, he said. Senior inspector of the Virar police station, Suresh Varade, said the accused had hired the cab of the victim to go to Lonavala, a popular hill station in Pune district, from Mumbai last month. En route, a quarrel broke out over payment of highway toll following which the brothers killed the cab driver, Santosh Jha, 52, and dumped his body under a bridge near Pangoli village off the Mumbai-Pune expressway, he said.