Vadodara: A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant outside a party plot hosting the Vanjara community’s Navratri festivities near Soma Talav Crossroads in Vadodara, in the wee hours of Monday.Police suspect the murder was motivated by personal enmity, while efforts are on to identify the killer, DCP (Zone 3) Abhishek Gupta said.The deceased, Nilesh Ramesh Vanzara, was sitting on his motorcycle near the parking gate of Swagat Party Plot, near the Nayara petrol pump, when the assailant stabbed him several times with a knife before fleeing.The FIR states that Nilesh suffered fatal injuries to his right ribs, abdomen, left arm above the elbow and both legs around the knees. The killing occurred before 12.36am on Monday, and the FIR was registered at Kapurai police station at 3.40am.Nilesh’s family were devastated, with his mother inconsolable. “My son, Nilesh… my Raja Babu, come back to me, my son. Without you, your mother’s world is empty,” she cried.Gupta said police teams had been formed to investigate the murder and examine CCTV footage from the area. Kapurai police, the local crime branch (LCB) and detection of crime branch (DCB) are probing the case from different angles.Investigators are also examining the victim’s mobile phone details and gathering information from his home and workplace. Technical surveillance and human intelligence are being used to establish the circumstances of the murder and gather further evidence. The case has been registered under Section 103(1) of BNS and Section 135(1) of the Gujarat Police Act.
