Thread: Pramod Mahajan shot at by brother, in critical condition

Bharatiya Janata Party General Secretary Pramod Mahajan was critically injured after he was shot at point-blank range by his brother Pravin Mahajan on Saturday morning at his residence in Worli, central Mumbai.

Mahajan, who was operated on at the Hinduja Hospital, has serious injuries on his liver, pancreas and intestines. Doctors said they were able to stabilise him and stop the bleeding.

Hospital sources said the bullets pierced his intestine and pancreas.

Mahajan received four bullet injuries, doctors said. He has been shifted to the intensive care unit and doctors say the next 48 hours will be critical.

He was given 25 bottles of blood during the operation.

The BJP leader's wife and some other family member witnessed the shocking incident after which a doctor living in the same apartment complex rushed him to the Hinduja hospital where he was immediately operated upon by a team of surgeons.

As many as four bullets have "shattered" Mahajan's liver, pancreas, intestines and the IVC, a key pipeline of blood leading to heart, according to Dr S Bhattacharya, one of the surgeons who operated upon him.

"We are fighting a death battle," Bhattacharya told NDTV , however, adding that Mahajan "looks stable at the moment."

Mahajan has lost a fair amount of blood and has been given as many as 25 bottles of blood, the doctor said.

After the surgery, Mahajan was being shifted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with doctors emphasising that the next 48 hours would be critical.

Confusion prevailed over what motivated Pravin, a building contractor, to shoot at his brother.

Initial reports that it was a property dispute between them were disounted both by the police and another brother Prakash, who lives in Aurangabad.

After shooting his brother Pravin went to the police station with the revolver, with which he had shot Mahajan and surrendered. He "confessed" to having shot the BJP leader, according to the police.

While Pravin, who has been charged with attempt to murder, was being interrogated at the police station, his lawyer Nand Kumar Rajurkar told NDTV that his client had a mental condition.

Pravin has a "well-knit" family consisting of his wife and two children, the lawyer said.


As the news of Mahajan being shot at spread, a large number of BJP supporters rushed to the hospital and police had a tough time in controlling the crowd.

Top BJP leaders, including L K Advani, Rajnath Singh and M Venkaiah Naidu have rushed to Mumbai.

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was in constant touch with Mahajan's family.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to Mahajan's wife before he left for his five-day visit to Germany and Uzbekistan.

Shiv Sena leaders Manohar Joshi, Uddhav Thackarey, film personalities Hema Malini and Madhur Bhandarkar, Maharshtra Ministers Chagan Bhujbal and Dilip-Walse Patil visited the hospital to enquire about Mahajan's condition

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I wish he survives but chances are remote