RAJKOT: A project manager with a Mumbai-based pipeline construction firm contracted by Gujarat State Petronet Ltd (GSPL) was stabbed to death in a residential society after a fight over overspeeding took an ugly turn in Rajula town of Amreli district on Wednesday night.
The victim, Shubhodeep Bhadra, a native of Kolkata, was declared dead on admission at the Rajula Civil Hospital while his colleagues - Ankit Sanodiya and Shabdar Khan Nizamuddin -who also suffered stab wounds are under treatment. The assailant, Pradyumansinh Gohil, suffered a minor fracture on the finger and will be arrested immediately after discharge from Mahuva Civil Hospital.
KJ Chaudhary, deputy superintendent of police, Savarkundla told TOI that Gohil suddenly got furious when Bhadra’s friends - Ankit Sanodiya and Shabdar Khan Nizamuddin- drove past him on the road at around 10pm. Gohil was merely standing there when the duo took a turn and entered Dev Residency on Chhatadia Road where they lived on rent with Bhadra and other employees. Sanodia and Nizamuddin were returning after dropping Bhadra’s guest at a near-by hotel.
When they reached home, Bhadra was having dinner. At around 10:15pm, Gohil came to their house and called Bhadra outside. After a brief talk, he left but returned after 15 minutes with another person and again called out Bhadra. He started hurling abuses at him asking as to why they were driving in such a speed. During the argument, he started repeatedly stabbing Bhadra, states the FIR lodged with Rajula police station by his subordinate Anshuman Ghosh. When his colleagues rushed to rescue him, Gohil allegedly stabbed Sanodiya in the neck and face while Shabdar suffered knife injuries in the hand, the FIR stated.
Sanodia was rushed to Bhavnagar’s Sir T Hospital, around 160 km away from Rajula, and his condition is said to be stable.
“Gohil’s condition is absolutely fine and we will arrest him as soon he gets discharged from the hospital,” Chaudhary said, adding that he has been booked for murder.
Bhadra’s family lives in his native Beleghata locality of Kolkata and he was staying in Rajula for the last one-and-a-half-year for the project. They lived Dev Residency on Chhatadia Road.
They were all working on a pipeline project in Kovaya close to Pipavav Port.