Navi Mumbai realtor shot dead by two men on motorcycles IV News

A realtor was shot dead while traveling in his car in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday evening, police said.

The victim, identified as Savji G. Manjeri, said to be in his mid-sixties, of Imperia Group, was in the driver’s seat of the vehicle near Apna Bazar in Sector 6 of Nerul town here around 5.30 pm when, according to Eyewitnesses, two men, both on a motorcycle, sped up, stopped his vehicle and forced it to stop on a busy road.

Then one of them whipped out his pistol and fired multiple shots at close range at Manjeri, who reportedly died on the spot, before the duo ran off.

The Navi Mumbai police have launched a manhunt for the killers in and around the city, scanning CCTV footage of the area and probing the motive – suspected to be a business rivalry – behind the daylight killing.

A team led by DCP Amit Kale along with other crime branch and Nerul police officers rushed there for the investigations.