India, May 25 -- A 30-year-old factory supervisor, identified as Ravindra Ahire, was allegedly hacked to death in Titwala's Mharal village on Friday night after he advised a woman to file a police complaint against a man for molesting her minor daughter, police said. Enraged over the proposed complaint, the accused allegedly attacked Ahire with sharp weapons along with two associates. All three were arrested within an hour of the murder.

The deceased lived in Malkhan Compound in Mharal village. Police said Ahire was close to the victim's family and the woman treated him like a brother.

According to investigators, the minor girl informed her mother on Thursday that Deepak Dange, the main accused, had repeatedly molested her. The woman la...