Surat: Textile unit owner kills his father in family’s presence

SURAT: In what looks like a bloody fall-out of pent-up frustration, a textile unit owner stabbed his 71-year-old father to death after a domestic quarrel in a joint family took an ugly turn in the posh Althan area on Thursday.
Sanjay Agarwal, the unit owner, stabbed his father Mohanlal with a knife in their flat when all the family members were present. Agarwal was scolding his two teenage daughters over studies when his father intervened and tried to placate his anger. However, this led to a bitter argument between them and Agarwal got a knife from another room. He then stabbed Mohanlal on the left shoulder in front of the family members including the daughters.
Mohanlal, who collapsed on the floor and suffered heavy blood loss. His elder son Rajiv called an ambulance and rushed him to the New Civil Hospital (NCH) where he died during treatment due to excessive blood loss.
According to police, Agarwal lives with his wife, two daughters, parents and brother Rajiv’s family on the eighth-floor flat of Sentossa Heights in Althan area.
The complaint in the case was lodged by Rajiv, who also lives in the same house with his family. Rajiv said in his complaint that Sanjay was scolding his daughters - aged 17 and 13 years when Mohanlal had intervened.
The brothers jointly run a lace strip making unit in Anjana area and are financially sound, police informed. Their units were closed due to lockdown and were yet to reopen. The family has been at home for the past four months.
“Sanjay had escaped after the incident. We are trying to locate him,” said a police officer at Khatodara police station.