On the evening of January 14, 1997, Sandip Nagvekar visited Dattaram alias Mama Pandurang Dodekar with the request for some gutka. When Dodekar said that he didn't have any, Nagvekar slapped him, thinking he was lying. A fight broke out between the two, and Nagvekar's brother, Ratnadeep, tried to pacify them and went out. However, a little while later, Ratnadeep retuned to Dodekar's house when he heard shouts, and found Nagvekar lying unconscious with stab wounds, as Dodekar had stabbed him with a kitchen knife in the chest and waist. Nagvekar was rushed to Cooper Hospital where he was declared dead before admission.

In another case, Additional Sessions Judge S M Deshmukh sentenced Lala alias Laloji Prabhu alias Usman Umer to life imprisonment for stoninghis colleague to death for refusing to give him brown sugar. On June 16, 1996, Shashikant Kamble and his friends were smoking brown sugar near the entrance of the Maharashtra Fisheries Development Corporation building at Sasoon Dock, Colaba. When Umer asked Kamble for a puff and was denied it, he threatened Kamble with murder and told him that `it would be his last night'. At 7 pm that same evening, after Kamble went inside the dockyard to retire for the night, Himanshu Pandya, an eye witness, reported seeing Umer smashing in Kamble's head with a heavy stone. Kamble, who was lying in bed face upwards, died on the spot.

Public Prosecutors Joshi-Patil and Kalpana Chavan appeared for the state respectively.