VADODARA: A drunken scuffle between two groups of friends and the latent desire to become a don or ‘bhai’, led to the murder of a youngster in Padra taluka on Thursday evening. Cops have booked four persons for killing Hitesh Parmar, a resident of Navapura on the night of December 31.
According to the police, the group of friends, including the accused and the deceased, gathered at a field in Ghayaj village at Padra to celebrate New Year’s Eve, along with liquor. Cops said that one of them, identified as Abhijeet, started showing a video clip of a news channel to everyone present at the spot boasting that he had attacked three persons with a knife and the clip would appear soon.
At this, the deceased intervened and said that he was their own area’s strongman. Soon the duo got into a scuffle and when a third friend, Kaushal Patel, tried to intervene, the other present at the spot began assaulting him.
Hitesh suffered severe head injuries in the assault and fell unconscious on the spot and succumbed to the injuries during treatment.
Patel got scared and fled from the spot with his friends. However, cops later approached Patel and inquired about the entire incident and arrested Bhavin Parmar, Bhavesh Parmar, Akshay Valand and Manoj Parmar for killing Hitesh. Police said that all the accused were drunk and a minor argument led to the sudden assault between two groups of friends.