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Crime Watch -- Surat

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Unidentified body found
The Chowk Bazaar police have recovered the body of an unidentified youth, aged between 25 and 28, from a field beside the Tapi river and have registered a case of murder under section 302 of the IPC. The Chowk Bazaar police said they found the dead body, which bore stab marks, from the Parsi Parvez Na Khetar fields. Although no one has been named as the suspect, the Chowk Bazaar police are making attempts to nab the culprits.

Youth dies
One Deepak Kumbhar, a 20-year-old youth working in a chemical factory at Golwad area of Salabatpura, died on Tuesday afternoon at the hospital of Dr Rajendra Desai in Soni Falia where he was admitted. The Salabatpura police said that Kumbhar worked at a workshop in house no 6/3582 at Pipardi Sheri in Golwad and accidentally gulped a chemical, while sucking it through a pipette, which caused him severe internal injuries. Kumbhar was declared dead in the afternoon and the police have registered a case under CrPC 174.

Hit-and-run
One Dhaturam Viushnuram Shivale, a man sleeping on the road opposite the J T slum on the Surat-Hazira Road at Ichhapore, was killed instantaneously when the driver of a tractor drove his vehicle over him during the early hours of Tuesday, the police said. The brother of the victim, Shaturam told the police on Tuesday that an unidentified driver of a tractor (GH 5 AA 1779) ran over the front wheels of his vehicle over the victim, killing him instantaneously. The driver escaped afterwards, the police said. A case under sections of the Indian Penal Code as well as the Motor Vehicle's Act has been registered at the police station and is being investigated.

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