Police have cracked the murder case of a 12-year-old boy whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase near LTT station here in January, with the arrest of six persons, including his employer.
According to a senior police officer, the deceased, identified as Randhir, was working as a zari worker in an imitation jewellery store of the main accused Shivnath Sahani, in suburban Kurla.
Randhir was a resident of Bihar.
A police team had gone to Bihar to gather more information about the deceased.
His body was found stuffed in an abandoned suitcase near the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) on January 8.
According to the police, Sahani allegedly stabbed the boy in a fit of rage, following an argument related to work.
It was Sahani, who with the help of his accomplices, packed Randhir's body in the suitcase and dumped it near LTT, police said.
While Sahani was arrested from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh yesterday, his wife Renu, son Ranvijay and his brothers-in-law Krishna Sahani, Vinay Shani and Ramanand, were arrested from various places in Mumbai last night.
They have been booked under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), the official said.
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