MUMBAI, July 25: Police have apprehended five persons, including the owner of a spa at Worli in Mumbai and three persons from Kota in Rajasthan, in connection with the murder of a history-sheeter inside his facility, officials said on Thursday.
Guru Waghmare, 52, was murdered inside the spa by two persons in the early hours of Wednesday. Waghmare, who used to claim that he was a police informer and also a Right to Information activist, had several cases including those of rape and extortion registered against him, they said.
“The Worli police apprehended the owner of the spa,” an official said.
The city police’s crime branch also apprehended the 26-year-old Mohammed Firoz Ansari from Nalasopara in Palghar district and one Sakib Ansari along with two other suspects from Kota in Rajasthan, he said.
“It was a case of ‘supari’ (contract) killing. The spa owner allegedly gave supari to kill Waghmare to the accused persons,” the police official said.
As per the case details, Waghmare, a resident of Vile Parle in Mumbai, visited the spa situated at Worli Naka regularly and the people working there knew him.
When Waghmare visited the spa on Tuesday evening, his 21-year-old woman friend and three male friends asked for a party as he had celebrated his birthday recently. The group of five then went to a hotel in Sion for a party. Around 12.30 am on Wednesday, all of them returned to the spa. After some time, the three men left while Waghmare and his woman friend stayed back, the police said.
About two hours later, two different men came to the spa and attacked Waghmare with sharp weapons, they said.
Worli police were alerted about the incident around 2.30 am. Police rushed to the spot and found Waghmare in a pool of blood with his throat slit. The victim had at least 10 cases registered against him, including a rape case registered at Mulund police station, the police added. (PTI)
