Man held for stabbing shop owner to death

Rajkot: Police on Sunday arrested a man who stabbed a grocery shop owner to death on Friday night in Tarsingada village of Maliya Hatina taluka in Junagadh district. According to police, Jesa Maka (30) stabbed Nanji Trada (45) with a knife after the latter refused to give him items on credit.
Police said the accused entered into an altercation with the owner and in a fit of rage stabbed him.
“Trada was rushed to Maliya Hatina Civil Hospital where he died during treatment. Maka was booked on the complaint of Trada’s son Gopal, who too received a wound on his hand from a knife inflicted by Maka. We nabbed Maka from the village,” said H V Rathod, sub-inspectpor with Maliya Hatina police station.
Murder accused arrested
Rajkot: The accused in the murder of a 24-year-old man who was stabbed to death on Kodinar bypass in Gir Somnath district on Thursday was arrested on Sunday from Vadodara. Police said the accused, Pratik Vaghela, had allegedly stabbed Digvijaysinh Kachhela to death, while the latter was driving his bike. “The murder was the result of an old enmity between Vaghela and Kachhela,” said an official from Kodinar police station, adding that Vaghela was nabbed from Savli near Vadodara.