Priest shot dead in his ashram near Surat

SURAT: A 60-year-old mahant of Tejanand Ashram located at Kharwasa on the outskirts of the city was shot dead in his room on Wednesday night.
Following a complaint by one of the disciples of the ashram, the police have started investigations.
According to the complaint, Swami Ashutosh das Guru Vishnu Das had retired for the day in his room on Wednesday night.When he did not come out in the morning, ashram inmates got curious and started searching for him. Later they found his body lying in a pool of blood inside the room on Thursday morning. He was shot from a point blank range and a hole in the mat on the wall suggested that bullet pierced through him .
Police registered the complaint at 2 pm and Sachin police station inspector JC Raoulji has started the investigation. Police is probing all angles but believe that there were more than one assailant involved in the murder.
The motive of the murder is still being investigated but police say that prima facie it looked like a fall-out of some personal enmity.