MARGAO
After battling for life for the last two days, Shabir Khan, a tailor from Madhya Pradesh, who was hit on the head with an iron road by his room partner at Navelim on Saturday, succumbed to his injuries at the Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim, on Monday evening.
Margao PI Kapil Nayak has confirmed the death and said the police will now book the accused Satish Kholi for murder under section 302 of the IPC. Satish is already in the custody of the Margao police since Saturday after he tried to flee away after committing the offence.
He was nabbed near the Sirvodem sewage treatment plant when he was on the run after abandoning his blood-stained clothes in the bushes near the plant.
The police have already recovered the blood-stained clothes and also the iron rod used to commit the offence.
