Mumbai: The MIDC police arrested a man from Goa who was wanted in the murder of a scrap dealer in Andheri nine years ago. Six other accused in the case are already out on bail. The police found that Mehtab Khan (46) was working with a scrap dealer in Goa.Khan kept changing his name after he fled to Karnataka and later relocated to Goa in 2020. “The MIDC police team nabbed Khan after they gathered information from a website of scrapdealers in Goa that get govt tenders. Accordingly, the team caught him on August 4,” DCP Datta NalawadeAssistant inspector Pravin Rakshe said Khan aided six others, arrested in 2017, to kill the victim as he tipped the Nashik police about person who was brother to one of the six arrested accused.MIDC police senior inspector Ghanshyam Nair said first picked Khan’s younger brother, thinking that he was the one who had committed the murder. But during questioning, he told the police that he was not the suspect. It was his elder brother who resembled him, he told the police.Inspector Sunil Karande said Khan, along with six others, allegedly bludgeoned Wasimullah Mohsin Shaikh (41) to death using iron rods on Feb 3, 2017, after inviting him for lunch.
