<p> A 28-year-old youth was stoned to death allegedly by three persons, who mistook him to a thief, at a quarry in Phule Nagar area of Bhiwandi town in the district, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The victim, identified as Shivshankar S Bansode, along with a couple of friends yesterday went near a non-operational quarry where there was a natural pond for fishing.<br /><br />However, Surej Patil, a relative of the quarry owner, mistook him to be a thief following which he and his two bodyguards attacked the youth with stones, police said.<br /><br />Bansode suffered serious head injury in the attack and died, police said.<br />Patil and his bodyguards have been booked under sections 302 (murder), 323, 341 (wrongful restraint) and 504 read with 34 of the IPC, and also sections 3, 2 and 5 of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, police said.<br /><br />The body was sent for post mortem, they said.<br />The quarry belonged to one Dhiraj Patil.<br />A probe is being conducted into the incident by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bhiwandi-West, Ravindra Bhosle.</p>
<p> A 28-year-old youth was stoned to death allegedly by three persons, who mistook him to a thief, at a quarry in Phule Nagar area of Bhiwandi town in the district, police said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The victim, identified as Shivshankar S Bansode, along with a couple of friends yesterday went near a non-operational quarry where there was a natural pond for fishing.<br /><br />However, Surej Patil, a relative of the quarry owner, mistook him to be a thief following which he and his two bodyguards attacked the youth with stones, police said.<br /><br />Bansode suffered serious head injury in the attack and died, police said.<br />Patil and his bodyguards have been booked under sections 302 (murder), 323, 341 (wrongful restraint) and 504 read with 34 of the IPC, and also sections 3, 2 and 5 of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, police said.<br /><br />The body was sent for post mortem, they said.<br />The quarry belonged to one Dhiraj Patil.<br />A probe is being conducted into the incident by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bhiwandi-West, Ravindra Bhosle.</p>