Five people were killed and one injured in an alleged shooting at a hotel on GS Road in Guwahati on Monday night, with police suspecting a dispute over the property’s lease agreement as the motive, reports TOI. The accused, identified as hotel leaseholder Ghanakanta Gogoi, was arrested within an hour of the incident, and a licensed pistol suspected to have been used in the shooting was seized from him, police said.
The shooting took place at Hotel Bilas Inn, opposite Bora Service, around 9 pm. The hotel is located about 2 km from Assam Police headquarters. The victims included the hotel’s co-owner, her son and daughter-in-law, her brother and the property’s caretaker. Four of the deceased belonged to the same family, while the fifth was from their village, Guwahati police commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta said.
