India, Sept. 4 -- A 10-hour-long hostage crisis ended with the dramatic rescue of a family when a murder accused stormed inside his brother's house with an axe and sickle and held his relatives, including his elderly parents, captive over a property dispute.

The dramatic standoff, which began late Wednesday night and stretched into the early hours of Thursday, unfolded in the densely populated Godse Ali area of Mumbai's older Panvel.

The accused, 35-year-old Soban Babulal Mahato, recently out on bail in connection with a 2018 murder case, allegedly stormed into his brother's house and locked himself inside, deputy commissioner of police (Zone II, Panvel) Prashant Mohite said.

Mahato, driven by a long-standing property dispute, took sev...