Nagpur shopkeeper, father and brother stabbed by neighbouring shop owner in Kavrapeth; accused held

A cloth shopkeeper in Nagpur's Shantinagar area was attacked with a dagger by a neighbouring shopkeeper in a bid to kill him. The incident took place in front of Monster Fashion Stores at Ghat Chowk in Kavrapeth. The shopkeeper's father and brother were also injured in the attack. Shantinagar police have arrested the accused.

According to information from the police, Sagar Lakhmichand Bajaj runs a clothes shop in the Shantinagar Colony area. Next to his shop is another clothes shop owned by Sukhyasingh Shyamlal Vaswani. The attack is alleged against Vaswani.

It is said that at around 11.15 pm the accused, Sukhyasingh, walked into Sagar's shop carrying a floor-wiping pipe. He told Sagar, "You are hatching a conspiracy against me." He then attacked Sagar with the pipe.

Sagar managed to catch hold of the pipe. The accused then began abusing him. In the course of this he lost his balance and fell. He did not stop, however. He took out a dagger he was carrying and began striking at Sagar.

Seeing the attack in front of them, Sagar's father Lakhmichand and brother Vipin Singh rushed to intervene. The accused struck both of them with the dagger as well. All three, Sagar, his father and his brother, were injured in the attack.

Following the incident, police arrested the accused, Sukhyasingh Shyamlal Vaswani. Shantinagar police are investigating the case further.

According to the police, the matter is a dispute between two neighbouring cloth shopkeepers. It began with the accused entering a shop at night with a pipe and escalated to dagger blows, leaving three members of one family injured. Before the attack, the accused had said that Sagar was conspiring against him. The accused has been arrested and the police investigation is continuing.