Love, drugs and a chilling murder rock Gujarat town

IN a plot straight out of a crime thriller, a minor girl allegedly drugged her father and orchestrated his killing with the help of her lover and his friend in Gujarat's Vadodara district.

- DILIP SINGH KSHATRIYA

The Vadodara city woke up to a spine-chilling revelation when police cracked the murder of a young man from Padra taluka stabbed to death inside his own home only to discover that the plot began not with strangers, but with his own minor daughter. What first appeared as a mysterious death near the victim's residence, quickly transformed into a calculated crime of betrayal, passion, and cold planning.

Police investigations revealed that the murder was executed in collaboration with the girl's lover, Ranjit, and his friend Mahesh . The plan, investigators say, was simple yet sinister to put the father into deep sleep and kill him.