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JAIPUR: Police have arrested five men for stabbing a 20-year-old youth two days ago, who succumbed to his wounds at SMS hospital on Sunday morning.
Victim Rajesh Verma’s father has filed an FIR at the Murlipura police station in which he said that his son had left their house on Friday afternoon to run some errands.
Verma was allegedly waylaid near a vegetable market by multiple suspects.
The accused ganged up Verma and assaulted him with sharp weapons. One of the suspects stabbed him with a knife which led to excessive bleeding. The five named accused and their aides fled from the scene leaving Verma in an unconscious state on the road.
People ferried a profusely bleeding Verma to the Kanwatiya hospital. He was later referred to the SMS hospital because of persistent deterioration in his condition.
ACP (Murlipura) Pramod Swami said the police arrested five suspects involved in the crime.
As per Swami, the suspects have been idenitfied as Pradeep Singh alias Pahadi (21), a native of Ajmer, Jorawar Singh (24), a resident of Vidhyadhar Nagar, Karthik Tailor
(22), a resident of Jhotwara, Ashok Brahmbhatt (22), a native of Dausa, and Pritam Thanwal (20) a resident of Vidhyadhar Nagar.
Swami said the suspects had come on two bikes and attacked the victim with knives. “The incident took place near a sabzi mandi (vegetable market) under Murlipura police station. A similar scuffle had taken place between Verma and his rival faction a few days ago near Pratap Nagar,” he said. Based on the preliminary investigation, police believe that the gory incident was a result of a bitter rivalry between two groups. Police said the suspects had no stable jobs and most of them were local louts.
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