Shocking Video: Man Stabs Neighbours in Mumbai
A 54-year-old man went on a stabbing spree on 24th March 2023 in Mumbai killing three of his neighbours and injuring two.
In a shocking incident on Lamington Road near Apsara Cinema in a chawl in Grant Road area of Mumbai, a 54-year-old man went on a stabbing spree on 24th March 2023 at around 3.30pm. He killed three of his neighbours and injured two others seriously.
Passers-by were shocked to see a man stab his neighbors with a knife in his hand. Some of them shot the video of the violent acts on their mobile phones which went viral.
Hearing the commotion, personnel from the nearby police station rushed to the scene of the crime. After the incident, the accused locked himself inside a room in the building. He refused to come out when the police reached the spot, but relented when they threatened to "break the door and hit" him. Police took him into custody and also recovered the knife used in the attack. The police rushed the victims, who were all profusely bleeding, to HN Reliance Hospital and Nair Hospital, where three of them succumbed to their injuries. According to the police, Chetan Gala suddenly attacked his neighbours in the afternoon. Gala began stabbing people in the neighborhood with a kitchen knife.
The police said there was a problem between Gala and his wife. After that his wife moved out of the chawl and started living separately in rented premises nearby two months ago with her children. He had been mentally disturbed ever since.
The Galas have three daughters and a son. One of the daughters is married.
Gala suspected that his neighbours had instigated his wife and took revenge on them by going on a stabbing spree.
The police said constant quarrels used to take place between the Gala couple, with the wife accusing her jobless husband of not bringing enough to the family kitty.
Gala had a shop, and the family was living off the rent it received.
Deputy police commissioner Abhinav Deshmukh said his team has started the investigation and evidence has been collected from the scene of crime. The statements of the neighbours are being recorded.
Jayendra Mistry (77), his wife Ilaben (70), and Jenil Brahmabhatt (18) were among those killed in the incident. The grievously injured have been identified as Snehal Brahmbhatt (44) and Prakash Waghmare (53), who was a househelp who was sleeping in the common passage of the chawl when he was stabbed.
This is the second grisly crime to be committed in the city in the course of the past 15 days.
On 15th March 2023, Kalachowkie area police arrested a woman for allegedly murdering her mother, dismembering her with a marble cutter, and storing the body parts in her home for more than two months.
