Man lynched in skirmish over son’s marriage; hunt on for suspects: Police | Ahmedabad News

2 min readAhmedabadMay 5, 2026 03:40 AM IST

SEVERAL TEAMS of the Ahmedabad City Police have been dispatched across different parts of north Gujarat to search for four persons who allegedly thrashed a man to death in public over a domestic dispute linked to the marriage of the latter’s son and a woman of their family.

Natu Ala Parmar (52) died during treatment allegedly due to the grievous injuries caused by the assault, CCTV footage of which has been recovered by the police.

The FIR was registered at Anandnagar police station on May 3, on the basis of a complaint by 25-year-old Kaushik Natu Parmar, son of the deceased. He claimed that the four accused had thrashed his father with iron rods and sticks on the head causing his death. He claimed that the attack was a fallout of his (Kaushik) marriage and subsequent dispute with his wife Malvika.

The FIR stated that Kaushik, a plumber, married Malvika  around four years ago. After some medical complications 6 months ago, she had gone to live with her parents and after the couple had some arguments, she did not return to her marital home.

The FIR stated that on May 2, around 8:30 pm, he got a call from a friend who told him that his father had been assaulted near Jivraj bridge, that several people had hit him on the head and that he was bleeding profusely. When he and his family members reached the spot, someone called an ambulance, but as his father was unconscious and bleeding, they put him in an autorickshaw and took him to Parekh Hospital. Natu Parmar subsequently died during treatment.

At the hospital, his friends told him that his father had been attacked by the four accused persons and another unidentified person, who were booked under the BNS section for murder.

When asked why sections of the Atrocity Act had not been added to the FIR since the deceased is a Dalit, PI RS Parmar of Anandnagar police station said, “It primarily appears that the accused persons are also from a Scheduled Caste. We have deployed teams to apprehend the accused and will know more once they are placed under arrest.”

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