Teacher killed by businessman over dumping of garbage

VADODARA: Frequent quarrels over dumping garbage on terrace led to the brutal murder of a 54-year-old school teacher by her neighbour in Vadodara on Wednesday night.

Police arrested assailant Kuldeep alias Montu Chauhan

(35), an engineer and cloth trader by profession, on Thursday.

The victim, Madhuri Jariwala, a teacher with Prerna Hindi Vidyalaya on Bajwa-Karodiya road, was stabbed multiple times by Chauhan in Kashidham Society near Sahyog Garden in Gorwa area. The tenement of the two families are next to each other and the terraces are separated by just a small wall.

The families of Chauhan and Jariwala were at loggerheads ever since the former shifted in their neighbouring house five years ago. While the Jariwala family had been objecting to Chauhan dumping garbage on their terrace and outside their house, Chauhan also made similar allegations against them.

When Chauhan came to city on Tuesday from Sabarkantha, he allegedly dumped trash on Jariwala’s terrace. However, she ignored on that day. On Wednesday night, Jariwala’s son Viplav suspected that Chauhan would again dump garbage and therefore he went to check.


Chauhan did not escape from house after murder

Madhuri Jariwala’s son Viplav found some bags of garbage dumped there and immediately went downstairs to complain to his mother. He got enraged seeing garbage bags dumped near his bike too.

Viplav told police that his mother placated him and decided to go to terrace herself to talk to Chauhan. “When she went upstairs, Chauhan was ready with an iron pipe. He tried to hit her with the pipe but she managed to hold it. Chauhan then took out a knife and stabbed her several times,” said R S Dodiya, police inspector, Gorwa police station.

Meanwhile, Viplav also rushed to the terrace and tried to save her. But Chauhan ran menacingly towards him also. Viplav got scared and ran downstairs to call his sister. When the siblings went to the terrace, their mother was lying in a pool of blood. Viplav then called neighbours and rushed her to a hospital. However, doctors declared her dead on admission.

Police officials said that Chauhan, who is unmarried, is short-tempered and frequently got into quarrels with people over petty issues.

He had moved with his family to Sabarkantha a few years back for readymade garments business. The family used to come to the city once in three months and stay for over a week before returning.

Viplav is a mechanical engineer working with a plastic company in Manjusar GIDC while Jariwala’s husband Arun works at state-run Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited at Dahej.