Victim of road rage had married cop 3 mths ago

Ahmed Ali / Mar 29, 2022, 03:15 IST

Mumbai: Road rage claimed yet another life in the city. Ram Singh, 32, who was working in the city as a bouncer for a developer in Dadar, was killed when he tried to intercede in a fight between his nephew Raj Singh and a gym trainer, Manish Patil. 
Ram Singh had married a woman police constable just three months ago, police said. “When he reached the spot after answering his nephew’s SOS, he saw Patil had just returned and had a sharp kitchen knife in his hand, pointed towards Raj. Ram Singh tried to intervene and Patil stabbed Ram Singh in the stomach and also attacked Raj, but the latter escaped with minor injuries on his thumb,” said senior inspector Mahesh Mugutrao.
Passersby rushed Ram Singh and his nephew Raj to KEM hospital on a motorcycle. Ram Singh, profusely bleeding, was immediately taken to the operation theatre and operated on. Police said that due to blunt stabbing by the gym trainer, there were serious injuries to Ram Singh’s liver, to which he succumbed the next day. Patil told police during interrogation that Raj Singh had assaulted him first in front of his 10-year-old daughter, and he had felt humiliated and in a fit of rage had stabbed Ram Singh who had come to Raj’s rescue.
Ram Singh’s brother Shanker (in pic) said, “Ram Singh had started a new life. His wife had got a home allotted to her in the police quarters. They were planning to move there.” 
Dadar police initially registered an attempt to murder case. After Ram Singh’s death, they converted it into a case of murder. Patil has been remanded him to police custody.