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The woman had filed a complaint against Dubey.in his Facebook post, Dubey had reportedly praised Congress MLA Naseem Khan on his birthday on October 21 and had added that the Congress party will win the 2019 elections, to which the woman objected, saying Khan had done no work for his constituents. According to the police, this angered Dubey who allegedly abused her in a Facebook comment. In response, the BJP supporter lodged a non-cognisable complaint against Dubey at Ghatkopar police station at around 11 pm on Sunday.

After this, according to Sakinaka police officials, Dubey went to a bar with his friends. The two accused allegedly followed him there. Dubey allegedly got into an argument with the two men outside the bar. During the altercation, the two men allegedly attacked him with a sword and a knife, police said.

Reddy told HT that a murder case has been registered under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.khan, a former minister in the Maharashtra government, led a protest march of 20-odd Congress workers to Sakinaka police station on Monday evening. “This is a political murder by BJP’S youth wing members,” he said. “There are more than five eye-witnesses. They are saying that more than two people are involved. We have requested the police to ensure all culprits are arrested.”a Sakinaka police officer said, “At the moment, it looks like a case of political rivalry gone wrong. The BJP, however, dissociated itself from the murder, terming it a personal rivalry where no politics was involved. “It was a local brawl and the BJP has no role to play in this murder. In fact we have no base in the Chandivali constituency at all,” BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari told HT on Monday evening. He said the police have already arrested the culprits and that no leniency would be shown to the guilty.law enforcement officials told HT that Dubey had a few criminal cases filed against him, including attempt to murder and grievous assault. Dubey is survived by his parents, younger brother, wife and a minor daughter.mumbai Youth Congress’s Twitter handle issued a statement on Monday saying, “We strongly condemn barbaric murder of Mumbai Congress volunteer Manoj Dubey who was killed last night for sharing a post on Facebook that Congress will form the government in 2019. We urge Mumbai Police to quickly investigate and put the accused in this horrendous crime behind bars.”