Thane, March 9 A sanitation worker employed by the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) in Thane district was stabbed to death by a man while on duty on Monday afternoon, leaving his wife in shock who committed suicide hours later, police said.
The deceased, Mahadu Jagtap (35), was employed as a contractual sanitation worker with a private company that has a cleaning contract with the UMC. The incident occurred in front of the house of a former corporator in the Section 20 area while Jagtap was carrying out routine cleaning work, they said.
"A man, identified as Durgesh Gupta (31), allegedly attacked the victim with a sharp weapon and stabbed him multiple times, leading to his death on the spot," a senior official from the Central Police Station in Ulhasnagar told