“OpIndia Exclusive: A 20-year-old Hindu man stabbed to death by Ashik Khan in Mumbai’s Dharavi, cross FIRs filed; read what the FIRs state”, OpIndia, March 20, 2026

“A Hindu man was murdered in cold blood by a Muslim man on March 16, 2026, in the Dharavi area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, after an argument turned violent. The victim, named Ashwin Nadar, was stabbed to death by Ashik Asim Akhtar Khan in the evening, around 5:30 pm, near a public toilet in the Gopinath Colony. As per reports, people on the scene tried to intervene, but the accused kept stabbing Nadar repeatedly, inflicting deep wounds on his body.

The victim, who was bleeding profusely, was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. But he succumbed to his injuries. An FIR was filed by the mother of the victim at the local police station on the day of the incident, against Ashik Asim Akhtar Khan. Sections 135 and 37(1)(a) of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 and Sections 109(1) and 351(3) of BNS were invoked against the accused in the FIR.

According to the FIR, the victim’s uncle, Muthappa Nadar, came running to the victim’s mother, Shevanti Shivkumar Nadar, on the evening of March 16, 2026, and informed her that her son was brutally attacked near a public toilet in the Gopinath Colony. They both rushed to the spot where the attack had happened and found Ashwin Nadar lying unconscious on the ground, in a pool of blood. Shevanti stated in the FIR that she saw the accused standing there holding a blood-soaked knife in his hand. The accused threatened that he would kill anyone who tried to intervene. Shevanti said that the throat of her son was slit and he had deep wounds in his chest, waist, abdomen and thighs……”

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