A 72-year-old retired government official was Wednesday found dead with bullet injuries in his bungalow in neighbouring Palghar's Maswan locality, police said Friday.
Police identified the victim as Pandarinath Sankhe, a retired Tehsildar of Vasai.
"Four bullet wounds were found on the temple of the victim. He had just come back from a morning walk on Wednesday. His wife and security guard heard gunshots and rushed in to see the victim lying in a pool of blood. A licenced revolver was lying close to him," a Manor police station official said.
Sankhe was declared dead on arrival by local hospital authorities, the official said, adding that the body had been sent to state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai for autopsy.
A case of accidental death has been registered for the moment but police are not ruling out any possibility, he added.
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