Guwahati hotel owner, 4 of family killed shot dead amid dispute with tenant

Five people, including four members of the same family, were shot dead at a hotel in Guwahati on Monday night. The firing took place at Hotel Bilas Inn in the city's busy Bora Service area and also left one person injured.

Police arrested the accused, identified as Ghanakanta Gogoi, the leaseholder of the property, within an hour of the incident and seized the weapon used in the shooting.

The victims have been identified as hotel owner Helena Bharali, her brother Bhudev Bharali, her son Devarshi Kashyap, daughter-in-law Riniki Kashyap, and their driver Narayan Das.

The injured person is Satyendra Pathak,



caretaker of the hotel.

A senior doctor at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital said the lone survivor in the shootout has been identified as Satyen Pathak and his condition is stable at present.

Guwahati Police Commissioner Dr Partha Sarathi Mahanta said the firing took place at around 9 pm. Six people sustained gunshot injuries, of whom five succumbed to their injuries. The surviving injured person is undergoing treatment at a hospital.

According to the police commissioner, four of the deceased belonged to the same family, while the fifth was from their village. The injured person is also from the same village.