Overview

• Restaurant owner Vijay Kumar Nag, 47, was shot in the chest around 11:30 pm Saturday at Chowpatty Restaurant on Kanke-Pithoria Road and was declared brought dead at the hospital.
• The victim, a resident of Bhittha in the Kanke police station area, has been sent to the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences for post-mortem.
• Police said raids are underway at multiple locations and CCTV footage is being examined to confirm the assailant’s identity.
• Eyewitnesses told reporters that a customer named Abhishek Kumar Nag returned to the restaurant over a vegetarian-versus-non-vegetarian biryani dispute and allegedly fired the fatal shot, a claim not confirmed by authorities.
• Locals briefly blocked the Kanke-Pithoria Road on Sunday demanding arrests, lifted the protest after police assurances of swift action, and investigators are also assessing whether the food-order dispute was the sole motive.