Man killed in brawl over cutting a tree

Vadodara: Brawl over cutting of branches of a tree cost a dance teacher his life in the city on Monday evening.
Rakesh Parmar, a resident of Gorwa, was stabbed to death by a man identified as Shahbaz Raj in Khatrinagar in full public view. The crime branch nabbed Shahbaz within hours of the murder and handed him over to the Gorwa police.
According to the police, the incident occurred when Shahid Rana and Shahbaz were cutting branches of a tree next to Arjun Rajput’s house in Gorwa. Rajput’s wife objected to it but after the duo didn’t pay heed to her, she called her husband who came to the spot with his friend Shaqeel. They got into an argument with Shahid and Shahbaz. Soon it turned in to a brawl and Shahid began assaulting Rajput.
Rakesh Parmar, who was Rajput’s friend and present at the spot, tried to intervene. “It was then that Shahbaz attacked Parmar with a sharp weapon. Parmar suffered grievous injuries on his chest and was rushed to the hospital,” the police said. But Parmar, who was in his late twenties, succumbed to the injuries.
An offence of murder was registered against Shahbaz at Gorwa police station following which the crime branch too swung into action. They got information that Shahbaz was in Sankarda village on the outskirts of the city following which they nabbed him early on Tuesday morning.