AHMEDABAD: A 25-year-old man knifed five men including a cop of Gujarat university police when he was on a looting spree in the Navrangpura area on Saturday evening.
The accused Mohan Desai is a resident of Vasudha apartment on CG Road in Navrangpura. For around one hour he had continued to scare people openly brandishing a knife and attacked people indiscriminately.
According to a complaint filed with Gujarat university police, a 39-year-old man from the Gota area of city, Pravindan Gadhvi, was having tea near Dadasaheb Na Pagla Crossroads when Desai tried to loot him. When Gadhvi resisted, he slashed his shoulder and right hand.
Gadhvi managed to escape and he called up police control room.
Meanwhile, Desai went towards Viay Crossrods where he demanded money from a paan shop owner Gautam Galchar, a resident of Naranpura, and when Galchar refused, he took out his knife and slashed Galchar on his right hand.
He did not stop there and slashed two other customers at the paan shop, Ram Galchar and Jayesh Galchar, both residents of Naranpura, on their hands and shoulders.
At that time, a constable of Gujarat university police, Prabhatsinh Shantubha, rushed there and tried to snatch the knife from him. But Desai slashed Shantubha’s right wrist and tried to flee before he was caught.
