Akshay Patra employee murdered, two detained

Vadodara: An executive of Akshaya Patra Foundation was found murdered at his house in Gorwa on Sunday evening.
The 53-year-old victim Ramlal Patel’s paramour Kinjal Patel and her boyfriend Krunal Dulera were detained on Monday for the murder.
Kinjal (22) had been living with Ramlal at his house in Jivabhai Flats in Gorwa since long. Ramlal’s family lived in his hometown Udaipur.
Lately, Kinjal developed a romantic relationship with Dulera, a resident of Kheda, and they decided to get married. However, it was not possible for them to get married as Kinjal was living with Ramlal and he was not willing to break off their relationship.
“The duo made a plan to kill Ramlal, so the woman called her boyfriend at Ramlal’s home and they killed him with a hammer when he was asleep,” said assistant commissioner of police B A Chaudhary.
The murder came to light when Ramlal’s colleagues from the NGO went to his home and broke the lock on his son’s insistence. Ramlal had planned to travel to his hometown on August 22. But when he did not reach and his phone was out of coverage area, his son Shailesh asked Ramlal’s colleague to check at home. Since his bike was found in the parking, Shailesh asked Ramlal’s colleague to break open the lock and check inside.
Ramlal’s colleagues told police that the body was in the bedroom. His head was covered with pillows and the bedsheet was completely stained with blood.
Patel had been working in the foundation’s logistics department for almost 10 years.