Ghatkopar

killing

murder

Himmat Gohil told the cop that he was fed up of being teased and killed him in a fit of ragepolice arrested a 68-year-old-man for allegedlyhis 14-year-old relative because the boy would play pranks on him and mock him. The police registered a case against Himmat Gohil and placed him under arrest on Saturday night.The police said Gohil lived a few meters away from the victim, Shiv Shambhu Pawar's house, in Golibar road area where the incident is believed to have occurred. Children in the area would mock Gohil and constantly play pranks on him, an official said. Gohil, in turn, would verbally abuse them and even beat them up, an official said.On Saturday, Pawar hid Gohil's slippers. While Gohil was looking for his slippers, the children in the area teased him. When Pawar returned his slippers, Gohil dragged him into his house in a fit of rage and started beating him before he allegedly strangulated the boy with his hands. Pawar became unconscious immediately.The neighbours who witnessed the incident alerted Pawar's parents, who went to Gohil's house and found their son lying on the floor. They took him to the civic-run Rajawadi hospital, where doctors declared him dead before admission.The police were also informed about the incident and officials went to Gohil's house and took him into custody. An FIR was registered under section 302 () of Indian Penal code against him. "We have arrested him and he was produced in the court. It seems that he was fed up of the victim teasing and playing pranks on him and killed him in a fit of rage," a police officer said.The postmortem report identified the cause of death as asphyxia. Pawar's body was handed over to his family after the postmortem.