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A 35-year-old Mahant (chief priest) of the historical Chandresal Math successful Rajasthan’s Kota was stabbed to decease by unidentified assailants precocious connected Friday night, successful what the constabulary fishy whitethorn beryllium linked to an ongoing quality implicit the monastery’s spot and succession.
The constabulary said the deceased, Devanand Maharaj, was allegedly stabbed 26 times with crisp weapons aft assailants barged into the Math nether the Borkheda constabulary presumption country astir midnight.
The attackers archetypal locked different Mahant successful a country earlier launching the battle connected Mr. Devanand. He was rushed to Maharao Bhim Singh Government Hospital successful the city, wherever helium succumbed to injuries.
Mr. Devanand, primitively from Sawai Madhopur’s Rajwana village, had been residing astatine the monastery for the past 4 years. Police fishy the execution could beryllium linked to an ongoing quality implicit the ownership of the spot which manages the Math arsenic good arsenic the presumption of Mahant.
The assemblage was kept astatine the mortuary of MBS Hospital aft the postmortem. Religious leaders and members of Hindu societal organisations, accompanied by Mr. Devanand’s household members, arrived astatine the infirmary successful ample numbers and refused to instrumentality the assemblage for cremation until the culprits were arrested.
The constabulary said investigations were underway from assorted angles, including idiosyncratic enmity, spot disputes and robbery. According to sources, immoderate individuals were being questioned aft the introspection of footage from the adjacent CCTV cameras and the postulation of forensic grounds from the transgression scene.
Meanwhile, the Opposition Congress besides raised the contented of criminals targeting spiritual leaders and paid tributes to the departed Mahant. While Kota territory Congress president Rakhi Gautam and elder Congress person Prahlad Gunjal met the protesters extracurricular the mortuary, Leader of Opposition Tika Ram Jully condemned the execution and accused the State authorities of remaining a “mute spectator”.
