Youth stabbed to death, another injured during cricket match brawl on Thane ground; two arrested

Thane: An argument during a cricket match escalated into a deadly knife attack at Gaondevi Maidan in Thane's Naupada area on Wednesday, leaving one dead and another critically injured. Naupada police arrested two men in connection with the fatal stabbing. During the cricket match between two local groups, an argument broke out between an underage boy and one of the arrested accused, Vishnu Chauhan (21), around 3.30pm, said Abhay Mahajan, senior inspector of Naupada police station.
Half an hour later, three youths reached the ground to confront Chauhan about the argument with the boy. However, the situation turned violent when Chauhan's brother-in-law, Rohit Patnesha (25), allegedly began abusing and assaulting the trio with a stump. The confrontation took a fatal turn when Chauhan attacked them with a knife. One youth sustained stab wounds to his hand, while another was stabbed in the leg, suffering severe blood loss.Both injured youths were rushed to Thane Civil Hospital, where doctors declared one of them ‘dead on arrival'. The other was shifted to Critical Care Hospital for further treatment. Based on the eyewitness testimony of Nitin Kisan Karotiya (39), Naupada police registered a case under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103(1), 109(1), 115(1), 352, 351(2), 3(5), along with sections 4/25 of the Arms Act and sections 37(1)/135 of the Maharashtra Police Act, and arrested Chauhan and Patnesha, who live in the Gaondevi Maidan bus stop area.