Gujarat crime news: BJP functionary killed after quarrel; three held

Gujarat crime news: A woman functionary of the BJP was allegedly killed by her neighbours in Dhari town of Amreli after a spat over an issue, police said

Gujarat crime news: A woman functionary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was allegedly killed by her neighbours in Dhari town of Gujarat's Amreli district after a spat over an issue, police said on Thursday, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, following the incident which took place late Wednesday night, the Amreli police on Thursday arrested three persons on charges of killing 55-year-old Madhuben Joshi and injuring her son Ravi Joshi, district Superintendent of Police Himkar Singh said.

Madhuben Joshi was a local BJP functionary who had earlier served as secretary of the party's Amreli district unit and as an elected member of Dhari taluka panchayat, as per the PTI.

The three suspects held by the police were identified as Rushik Mehta (22), Jayom Mehta (20) and Hariom Mehta (18), all residents of Shiv Nagar society in Dhari town, as per the police, the news agency reported on Thursday.

A preliminary probe by the investigators revealed that the three suspects, who live near Madhuben Joshi's house, picked up a fight with Joshi and her son Ravi following a minor accident outside Madhuben Joshi's residence, Singh said, according to the PTI.

"Though the accident was minor, the three accused first engaged in a spat and then attacked Joshi and her son with swords, which they brought from their house. While Ravi received injuries, his mother died due to a deep wound on her arm as her vein got cut in the attack. We have arrested all the three accused," the official told reporters, as per the PTI.

Joshi's another son Ritesh while talking to reporters claimed the accused held a grudge against Ravi since some time over an issue of bursting of firecrackers near their house. At that time, one of the accused had a spat with Ravi.

When Ravi was passing on his motorcycle on Wednesday, the three accused deliberately rammed their car into his two-wheeler, he alleged.

"When my mother and brother went to their house to scold them for this act, they attacked them with swords," Ritesh charged, a PTI report stated.

"My mother died due to a deep wound on her arm," he claimed.

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