A credit manager of a financial institution lost his life while going to meet his girlfriend. It has been alleged that after reaching his girlfriend’s house at midnight, the youth was tied with ropes to a tree and brutally beaten to death with sticks by the girlfriend’s family. This sensational murder took place on Wednesday night in Thangna village of Kheralu taluka in Mehsana district of Gujarat.
According to police sources, four people have already been detained for their alleged involvement in this murder. The deceased youth has been identified as 31-year-old Ranjitji Thakor, a resident of Vagharol village in Siddhpur taluka of Patan district. The youth was working as a Credit Manager at the Siddhpur branch of a financial institution named Cholamandalam.
According to the filed FIR, Ranjitji had been in a love relationship with a young woman from Thangna village for the last about two years. The family also knew about this love affair of the youth, whose first marriage had ended in divorce in 2024. On the morning of October 27, around 9 am, the youth left for his workplace on a motorcycle and at around 11:45 pm called his mother to inform her that he would be late in returning home.
As mentioned in the family’s FIR, at around 3:30 am on October 28, a relative informed the family that the youth had gone to Thangna to meet his girlfriend and was caught red-handed there by the girl’s family. The girl’s mother, brother, uncle and another relative together tied Ranjitji’s hands and legs with rope to a tamarind tree near the house and brutally assaulted him with sticks.
As a result of the brutal beating, the youth became unconscious and they made him lie down on a bed where he died. At around 9 am, the youth’s father and family members reached the spot and found the dead body covered with sacks on an iron cot under the tamarind tree.
The father informed the police that there were clear marks of serious injuries on the back, neck, waist and legs of the deceased youth. In addition, the family has also alleged that a gold chain weighing about one and a half tolas that the youth was wearing around his neck is missing. The police have already recovered the dead body and arranged for a post-mortem examination and have started a detailed investigation into the incident.
