Man arrested in Maha in connection with murder of Guj youth

Mumbai Police's Crime Branch today arrested a man accused of hiring persons who set ablaze a Dalit youth in neighbouring Gujarat over an altercation on the purchase of a car, police said.
Police said that Devayat Jovta, on whose behest 26-year-old Bharatbhai Uka Gohil was allegedly set on fire near Veraval by four unidentified persons last Saturday, was arrested from neighbouring Palghar district.
Gohil, a resident of Gir Somnath in Gujarat, died of burn injuries in a hospital in Rajkot yesterday but had managed to tell cops earlier that Jovta was responsible for the incident.
Police said that Jovta, who was absconding since the incident, managed to escape when police from the Crime Branch's Unit 10, on specific information, raided a hotel in suburban Andheri where he was hiding.

However the police's surveillance of Jovta helped them arrest him while his car was passing Khaniwade toll post in Palghar, officials said.
Police said that, while under treatment, Gohil had given a statement that Jovta had threatened him over money outstanding on a car Gohil had purchased in Ahmedabad.