A listed criminal was hacked to death during a mass feast ceremony (bhandara) in Nanda Nagar locality. The incident occurred late Sunday night when a listed criminal identified as Cheenu Thakur had a heated argument with another criminal Pradip Yadav during a bhandara (mass feast programme) near Bima hospital, Nanda Nagar.
The squabble between the two grew further with Pradip Yadav along with his accomplices Krishnapal Singh stabbed Cheenu Thakur with a knife repeatedly four-five times. The victim Cheenu Thakur who sustained severe injuries during the attack, fell on the ground.
The incident created scramble at the bhandara site and taking benefit of this, the accused made their escape good. In the meantime, injured victim was taken to a hospital by his relatives but he succumbed to his injuries on the way before he could reach the hospital.
After being informed about the matter, ASP Ramji Shrivastav, Rajesh Sahay, CSP Ajay Jain and TI Basant Mishra along with a police force rushed the incident site to take stock of the situation. According to ASP Shrivastav, both the accused and the victim were listed criminals of Heera Nagar locality.
According to police, Pradip Yadav who had an old enmity with Cheenu Thakur seeing the latter at the mass feast ceremony had first engaged himself in a verbal brawl. later their verbal dual turned violent with Yadav along with his accomplices stabbing Cheenu repeatedly with a knife.
Before the incident, Assembly constituency No. 2 leaders including IMC chairman Rajendra Rathore, IMC corporator Chandurao Shinde also participated in the mass feast ceremony which had been organised by one Neeraj Sharma, a confidant of Indore-2 Assembly constituency MlA.
late Sunday night, Heera Nagar police registered a murder case against the accused and took the bhandara organiser Neeraj Sharma and another youth for further interrogation in connection with the case.