Homeless Man Bludgeoned To Death With Block Of Concrete While Sleeping On Pavement

A homeless man was reportedly brutally bludgeoned to death with a block of concrete following a dispute about the victim sleeping on pavement in Mumbai, India on Monday, Oct. 11.

Rajesh Thakur, 35, also homeless, has been arrested for mercilessly killing an unidentified man using a heavy block of concrete after the duo reportedly engaged in a heated altercation regarding their sleeping arrangement on a strip of pavement in urban Mumbai, the Times of India reported.

The incident came to light after a pedestrian alerted the police officers of the victim being found lying in a pool of his own blood near the Khada Parsi junction in south Mumbai.

Thakur and the victim reportedly slept in the same area near the Khada Parsi junction. However, on Monday night, Oct. 11, an explosive confrontation broke out between the duo over their sleeping conditions. In a fit of rage, Thakur reportedly picked up a nearby concrete block and began bludgeoning the victim to death. After committing the horrendous crime, Thakur fled the scene.

The police reviewed the CCTV surveillance footage from near the crime scene and zeroed in on Thakur as the culprit. Thakur has been arrested and has been booked under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

In a similar but unrelated incident, a young man's head was bashed in by an assailant while he was sleeping on pavement in Kolkata, West Bengal, India on July 20, News18 reported.

The victim, Om Prakash Sharma, who used to run a roadside food stall, was reportedly sleeping on the pavement at night due to humidity when an unidentified person smashed his head. Sharma was later found lying in a pool of blood the next day and was rushed to Kolkata Medical College Hospital by his family members.

Sharma reportedly died within minutes while being treated at the facility.

Rita, Sharma’s mother, claimed that her son did not receive proper treatment in the hospital.

This is not the first time that bludgeoning deaths have grown increasingly common in India. In 1989, 13 homeless people who were living on the pavements in Kolkata were killed in a similar manner. The men behind the murders still remain unidentified. The common factor in all the 13 killings was that the murderers smashed the victims' heads with a heavy rock.