Two people were brutally murdered in the wee hours of Wednesday, while they were sleeping under the Turbhe flyover on the Thane Belapur road in Navi Mumbai. After registering a case in the matter, the Sanpada police detained a suspect in the case, who is currently being interrogated.
The two deceased have been identified as Sandeep alias Bala Gaikwad, 22, a resident of Anandnagar in Turbhe and Sameer Aslam Shaikh, 20, a resident of Hanuman Nagar. While Shaikh was unemployed, Gaikwad used to occasionally drive an auto-rickshaw. According to police, the duo was sleeping under the flyover when someone smashed their heads and faces with a stone.
