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A Thane police officer said, "They had received information on the hideout of the five alleged accused after which unit number 5 of the Thane crime branch conducted an operation and caught them."

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Those arrested have been identified as Vivek Shettiyar, 22, a football player, Tejas Dalvi, 23, a Merchant navy employee, Riyaz Ansari, 24, Ismail Shaikh, 24, and Shanawaz Khan, 22.

In the wee hours of Sunday, someone stabbed Panchal outside Royal Smoke Hookah Parlour after a brawl broke out between two groups when he accidentally bumped into one person while dancing. He died during treatment at Cooper Hospital. Panchal, who worked as a salesman at a mall in Powai, had gone to the hookah parlour around 4 am with friends.

A day after the incident, the Goregaon police had arrested six people allegedly involved in the murder, but are yet to arrest all the accused in the case.