The victim was a handcart puller, said police (Representational)
The police in Mumbai have arrested two persons for allegedly strangulating a handcart puller to death with a pajama string over past enmity, an official said on Sunday.
The Lokmanya Tilak (LT) Marg police were alerted on Saturday about a man lying motionless on Dhanji Street in south Mumbai, the official said.
Cops rushed the man to nearby GT Hospital where doctors declared him dead, he said.
Post-mortem revealed that the man, Vijay Mandal, had died due to strangulation. Vijay was a handcart puller, the official said.
Following an investigation, the police arrested 28-year-olds Pradeep Mandal and Suraj Pramanik who confessed to strangling Vijay with a pajama string, he said.
The official said that Pradeep and Suraj killed Vijay over past enmity.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)