Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), June 20 -- Police have arrested a 55-year-old man for allegedly murdering a youth from Telangana with an axe over a long-pending financial dispute in Gadchiroli district, officials said on Saturday.
The incident occurred in Karancha village under Aheri tehsil in the early hours of June 19.
The deceased, identified as Mahesh Satyanna Odila (28), a resident of Komaram Bheem district in Telangana, had come to the village along with a friend to attend a post-funeral ritual. The two stayed overnight at the house of the accused, Laxman Soma Alam.
According to police, Alam allegedly attacked Odila with an axe while he was asleep in the courtyard, killing him on the spot before fleeing into a nearby forest.
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