Gujarat: Fight over food results in murder; two held

TNN | Updated: Apr 15, 2020, 11:48 IST

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RAJKOT: The lockdown period seems to have triggered a wave of rage among people, especially labourers who have been rendered jobless. Anger erupts over trivial issues. In one such incident, two labourers were arrested on Monday night for allegedly killing their 50-year-old fellow labourer to death over an issue of standing in a queue to receive food in Morbi.
Police said the accused, identified as Jiten Marwadi and Govind Marwadi, had allegedly attacked Mansinh Maiyada with bats.
According to the police, the incident took place under Pada Bridge on the bank of Machchu River where labourers live in slums. During the lockdown, an NGO used to dole out free food to the jobless labourers who would stand in a queue to receive it.
While Maiyada was standing in the queue along with his wife Kamali, Jiten and Govind pushed them aside and stood in their place on April 10.
“This triggered off an altercation between the accused and Maiyada, following which the accused picked up bats and started beating up Maiyada with it, dealing him blows on his head. Maiyada was first taken to Morbi Civil Hospital and from there he was shifted to Rajkot Civil Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on Monday night,” said P B Gadhvi, inspector with Morbi B division police station.
“The accused had fled after committing the crime. However, they returned to their huts, as Maiyada had not died then. After the death of Maiyada, we nabbed them,” added Gadhvi.