Vedanand Issen, 37, also known as Long, resident of Sandokan Road, Petit Raffray left there during an argument on the afternoon of Sunday July 2. He was stabbed with a knife in his possession. During a fight with one of his friends, Moonishwar Athal, known as Rakesh, a 48-year-old mason. The latter snatched the knife before inflicting several blows, including a fatal neck wound.
The tragedy occurred shortly before 1 p.m. on the Diagonal, Trois Bras, Petit Raffray road, near a supermarket. Police officers from Goodlands police station were called to the scene at around 1.10pm. They found the victim lying on her back with a cell phone in her left hand, her clothes soaked in blood and blood scattered on the ground. She was motionless. A beer bottle was next to her body, as was a blue Mondial motorcycle that was on the side of the road.
An ambulance from the Service d’Aide Médicale d’Urgence soon arrived at the scene. Unfortunately, the doctor was unable to pronounce Vedanand Issen dead at 1:34pm. The man’s body was then taken to the morgue of the Dr. A.G. Jeetoo Hospital, Port-Louis, for an autopsy. The autopsy was carried out on the evening of Sunday July 2 by Dr Prem Chamane, Principal Police Medical Officer, in the presence of Dr Mahder, Police Medical Officer. He attributed the cause of death to shock due to a stab wound to the neck.
At around 2 p.m. on the same day, a team from Goodlands Criminal Investigation Division, assisted by officers from the Field Intelligence Office, arrested Moonishwar Athal, a local resident. Under intense interrogation, the suspect was quick to explain the circumstances surrounding the man’s death. For a month, he explained, Vedanand Issen, who was known to the police, had been looking for trouble with him. Around 1pm on Sunday July 2, he came across him near a supermarket on the Diagonal route, Petit Raffray.
An argument broke out between them. Vedanand Issen withdrew a knife from his pocket, and during a struggle he claims to have managed to take the weapon from the victim’s house. He then inflicted several blows to her body, resulting in her death. On Monday July 3, Moonishwar Athal was brought before the Pamplemousses court on a provisional charge of murder. He was subsequently returned to the police cell on the orders of Assistant Superintendent of Police Jankeeparsad Buchoo.
Vedanand Issen’s funeral took place on Monday July 3 at 12pm in Daruty, where cremation took place.
