Delhi man kills Goa woman after feud over dog walking | India News
PANAJI: A Delhi man was arrested Saturday for mowing down a resident of Goa’s Mandrem locality with his four-wheeler following a feud over walking a dog the previous night.
Investigations revealed that the family of the victim, Maria Joao Fernandes, had fought with the kin of the accused, Deepak Rajeev Batra. While Batra was walking with his parents, he got into a verbal duel with Maria’s son, who objected to walking the dog close to his mother’s house. The argument soon escalated into a physical altercation, with both sides exchanging blows and sustaining injuries, police said.
An enraged Batra then sat in his car with his parents and ran over Maria with the speeding vehicle around 9pm Friday. She succumbed to severe injuries. Later that night, villagers gathered at Mandrem police station demanding Batra’s arrest. They left the premises the next morning only after being promised action.
North Goa SP Akshat Kaushal said initially, police received a report about an accident in Junaswada area wherein a woman had been hit by a car. “Police immediately began an investigation. The car involved in the accident was seized and Batra, a resident of New Multan Nagar in Delhi’s Paschim Vihar area, was arrested,” the SP said.
“The accused’s hands bore bite marks, for which a medical examination was conducted. An FIR under BNSS Sections 103 (murder) and 281 (rash driving) was registered,” SP Kaushal said, adding that a forensic examination of the crime scene and the vehicle was conducted.
Batra had previously worked as a chef in Dubai.
