A 62-year-old man was found smashed to death at a village in the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/palghar-constable-injured-in-attack-by-theft-23288566" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Palghar district</a> of Maharashtra, after which a case of murder was registered against unidentified persons, reported news agency PTI.
The body was found lying near the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-case-against-two-house-owners-for-power-theft-in-palghar-23287946" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Usgaon bus stop</a> on Thursday morning, an official told PTI.
"Some passers-by spotted the body of the elderly man and alerted the police, whose team rushed to the spot and sent the body to a government hospital for post-mortem," a police official of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/two-killed-in-motorbike-car-collision-in-maharashtras-palghar-23287937" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Mandvi police</a> told PTI.
The victim, identified as Viva Vayda, hailed from Sapgaon village in the district, the police said, adding that a search is underway to nab the accused and the motive behind the murder is also being ascertained.
Earlier on May 12, hours after the body of a man was found in a lake in Maharashtra&rsquo;s Thane city on Friday morning, a second corpse was discovered in another pond within the city limits.
The second body was seen around 12.20 pm in the Nirmal Nagri lake in Khardi village along the Diva-Shil road, Avinash Sawant, chief of Thane civic body&rsquo;s Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC), told news agency PTI.
A case of accidental death has been registered, said police told PTI.
Earlier on the same day, the body of a man was fished out from the popular Upvan Lake.
On May 8, the body of a man aged around 30 years was found in a lake in Maharashtra&rsquo;s Thane city.
The body was spotted in Upvan Lake around 9 am, said Avinash Sawant, the chief of Thane civic body&rsquo;s Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC).
It was fished out and handed over to the Vartak Nagar police, he said.
A case of accidental death was registered and the body was sent to a government hospital for post-mortem, a police official said.
(With inputs from PTI)

A 62-year-old man was found smashed to death at a village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, after which a case of murder was registered against unidentified persons. The body was found lying near the Usgaon bus stop on Thursday morning

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