Rajkot: A 24-year-old was flogged to death at Gundiyali village in Kutch on Wednesday evening.
Mandvi police have registered a murder case against Piyush Rajgor, Rohan Goswami and an unidentified person for killing Vinod Maheshwari.
Vinod’s cousin Kishan Maheshwari told police that he had received a call from Vinod in the evening that he has been picked up by the accused and they were beating him. By the time, Kishan reached the crime scene, Vinod had died and the three accused had fled.
“The three accused had asked the victim to call his cousin and inform. But why they asked him to do that and what was the motive behind the murder has not been known yet,” said a police official.
Besides murder, Mandvi police have also booked all the three accused under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.