Ranjitji Thakor, a credit manager aged 31, met a horrific fate in Thangna village, where his girlfriend’s family allegedly murdered him
He also reported that a gold chain weighing around one-and-a-half tolas was missing.
Four people have been rounded up in connection with the murder, police said. The father told police that he noticed injury marks on his son’s back, neck, waist and legs. The deceased, Ranjitji Thakor , was a resident of Vagharol village in Sidhpur taluka of Patan district and worked as a credit manager at Cholamandalam in Siddhpur. Ranjitji’s father and other relatives reached the village around 9am after learning about the incident. They found his body on the iron cot beneath the tree, covered with a sack. Police took custody of the body and initiated inquest and postmortem procedures.
PALANPUR: A 31-year-old credit manager of a finance company was allegedly tied to a tree and beaten to death with sticks by his girlfriend’s family members after he went to meet her in Thangna village of Kheralu taluka in Mehsana district late on Wednesday night. Ranjitji left home on his motorcycle for work around 9am on Oct 27. When his mother called him at 11.45pm, he reportedly told her that he would return late. Around 3.30am on Oct 28, a relative informed his family that he had gone to meet the woman in Thangna and had been caught by her family.
He had been in a relationship with a woman from Thangna for about two years, and his family was aware of it, according to the FIR.