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A 31-year-old event manager was stabbed to death in Mulund on Wednesday evening. The victim, Rajesh Soni Lakhwani, was stabbed 19 times and was still alive when his mother and brother found him. However, he was declared dead on arrival at the Mulund General Hospital.
Lakhwani, a resident of Shastri Nagar in Mulund Colony had stepped out of his house on Wednesday evening. About an hour later two men arrived at his house and informed his mother that someone had 8220;attacked her son.8221;
8220;The men told me that they saw Rajesh lying in a pool of blood and said that he had been attacked. However, I expected him to be grievously injured, but I can scarcely believe that he is dead,8221; said his widowed mother who requested anonymity.
She and Lakhwani8217;s younger brother had rushed to the spot and rushed him to the Mulund General Hospital. The Mulund police was notified and a case of murder has been registered.
8220;The incident occurred near the pipeline that runs through Dongarpada in Mulund Colony. Lakhwani used to work in a call centre but had left the job three years back and had begun organising local events. We are investigating whether he had any enemies and have already interrogated some suspects. However, we are yet to find any leads about the motive for the murder or the culprit,8221; said Police Inspector Crime Chandrakant Thakur.
The Lakhwani household was filled with mourners on Thursday morning and his mother kept repeating that her son did not have any enemies. 8220;Four days ago he had come back saying that a friend named 8216;Akshay8217; had threatened to kill him when he asked him to repay a loan. But we did not take it seriously,8221; she said.
She claimed that she did not know who 8216;Akshay8217; was or how Lakhwani had met him.
