Overview

• Vipul Parmar, arrested a day earlier in the killing of Vaibhav Manwani near the Ambapur–Narmada canal, was fatally shot when police returned fire during a site visit in Gandhinagar.
• Officials said Parmar snatched a policeman’s gun and opened fire, injuring head constable Rajendra Singh, before officers shot him; paramedics declared him dead at the spot.
• Investigators have begun the panchnama and postmortem, and forensic analysis will determine how many rounds were fired by the accused and by police.
• The Ahmedabad Crime Branch had traced and arrested Parmar in Rajkot after a multi-agency hunt that used CCTV and technical surveillance.
• Police say the surviving woman underwent surgery at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and is stable, and they are examining Parmar’s suspected links to earlier robberies and attacks.