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Mumbai police book filmmaker Manish Gupta for stabbing driver over salary dispute

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Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Manish Gupta has been booked for allegedly stabbing his driver with a kitchen knife following a salary dispute, police said on Saturday.

According to Mumbai police, the incident occurred on Thursday night at Gupta’s residence in the Sagar Sanjog building in Andheri area of a Mumbai suburb .

Police sources said the victim, 38-year-old driver Mohammad Lashkar, had worked with Gupta for three years, earning a monthly salary of ₹23,000. However, Gupta reportedly never paid his salary on time, leading to frequent altercations between them. Gupta also failed to pay Lashkar’s salary for the previous month and sacked him.

On June 5 when Lashkar demanded his pending salary, Gupta allegedly refused to pay and reportedly took a knife from the kitchen and stabbed him on the right side of his body.

The Versova police station registered an FIR against Gupta on June 6 under Sections 118(1) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 115(2) and 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

Sources in Versova police said that so far Gupta has not been arrested, but police served him a summons directing him to appear in the police station.

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