<p>Palghar: A man allegedly killed a 65-year-old villager and then dumped the body at a field in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra's</a> Palghar district, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The incident took place last Saturday and the body was found on Monday, they said, adding the motive behind the killing was not yet known.</p>.<p>The victim, belonging to Gavtanpada in Jawhar taluka, was killed by a man while both were inebriated, Jawhar police station's inspector Kishore Manbhav said quoting the FIR.</p>.Gang of mobile tower battery thieves busted in Palghar; 9 held.<p>The accused then tied the body to a rope, dragged it for about 150 metres to a field of another villager and dumped it there, the police said.</p>.<p>Some passersby spotted the body on Monday and alerted the police.</p>.<p>Later, the police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem to a government hospital in Jawhar.</p>.<p>Search was on for the accused, the police said.</p>
<p>Palghar: A man allegedly killed a 65-year-old villager and then dumped the body at a field in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/maharashtra">Maharashtra's</a> Palghar district, police said on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The incident took place last Saturday and the body was found on Monday, they said, adding the motive behind the killing was not yet known.</p>.<p>The victim, belonging to Gavtanpada in Jawhar taluka, was killed by a man while both were inebriated, Jawhar police station's inspector Kishore Manbhav said quoting the FIR.</p>.Gang of mobile tower battery thieves busted in Palghar; 9 held.<p>The accused then tied the body to a rope, dragged it for about 150 metres to a field of another villager and dumped it there, the police said.</p>.<p>Some passersby spotted the body on Monday and alerted the police.</p>.<p>Later, the police reached the spot and sent the body for postmortem to a government hospital in Jawhar.</p>.<p>Search was on for the accused, the police said.</p>