Mentally-ill woman stabs IIM-A employee at mall

Harsha Khatri, a 37-year-old computer supervisor at IIM-A, was on Sunday stabbed in the neck by a mentally-ill woman, at Himalaya Mall on Gurukul Road in Ahmedabad.

Khatri has been admitted to SAL Hospital for treatment while the woman who stabbed her is in police custody. Police said the assailant was mentally ill.

Khatri, who has been an IIM-A employee for the last 15 years, is a resident of Vishwashanti society in Ambavadi area of the city. On Sunday, she had gone to Himalaya Mall with her sisters, Meena Chinubhai Khatri and Kiran Parikh, to buy clothes.

It was while they were in the Big Bazaar shop at the Mall that a woman grabbed Harsha’s arm from behind and stabbed at her throat with a knife. The assailant had covered her face with a black cloth and was clad in a ‘Punjabi suit’.

Harsha fell down while a crowd of onlookers surrounded her and the woman who had stabbed her. While some in the crowd thrashed the assailant, some others dialled 108 and 100. The Vastrapur police soon arrived at the spot and took Harsha to hospital.

The assailant was taken to the police station where she created a big ruckus. When police officers asked her what her name was, she first said it was Rinku, then Dipti. Finally, she revealed that her name was Aparajita Maulik, and that she was a resident of Goyal intercity at Thaltej.

At the police station, Maulik tried to assault mediapersons before attacking female police
officers.