Corporate Cover-Up: Murder Masqueraded as Mishap in Nagpur

A Nagpur-based private firm's owners are accused of trying to disguise the murder of their security guard as an accident. Kamlesh Patel, the victim, was allegedly killed by a drunk colleague, Manohar Bende. While Bende has been apprehended, the firm's owners are currently fugitives.

In a troubling incident from Nagpur, the owners of a local private firm are under scrutiny for allegedly attempting to mask the murder of their security guard as an accident.

The victim, Kamlesh Patel, aged 50, was employed as a security guard at Ujjwal Ispat Private Limited in Hingna MIDC. He was reportedly murdered by 42-year-old labourer Manohar alias Manoj Bende, who at the time was intoxicated.

Following the incident, a police official disclosed that the firm's owners, Suresh Chandani and Dharmesh Suresh Chandani, initially registered the case as an accidental death. However, subsequent investigations revealed it as murder. Bende is now in custody, while the Chandani owners remain at large.

(With inputs from agencies.)