A 64-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by his daughter's mother-in-law over a property dispute in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Monday.
The police have arrested the accused, Shaguftabegum Rafique Beig (52), for the murder that occurred at a lodge in Bhiwandi town on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, an official said.
The victim, Dastagir Allabaksh Sheikh, was attacked with a knife and his throat was slit in a room at the lodge, he said.
The lodge manager discovered the victim's body and alerted the police, the official said, adding that the murder was due to a property dispute.
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