An executive of Ahmedabad-based Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited was reportedly killed by assailants in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. The father of the 38-year-old executive was also injured in the attack by miscreants, who had been following their car on two bikes.
Identified as Ketan Shah, the finance director at Laboratorios Torrent SA de CV, a subsidiary of Torrent Pharma, he was deputed to the country in May 2019.
Sources said, he was returning home with his father after withdrawing $10,000 (Rs 8.30 lakh approx.) from an airport foreign exchange centre, when the armed looters intercepted his car on Simon Bolivar Street and fired seven times on it before fleeing with the money.
Sources said that despite the immediate arrival of local emergency services, Shah displayed no signs of life. Shah’s father suffered injuries in the attack, but is now in stable condition.
Shah leaves behind his wife and two children.
Mexican authorities have initiated a probe while Torrent Group officials are working to ensure the safe return of Shah’s family to India, sources added.
“In the extremely regrettable and tragic death of an Indian national shot by unknown assailants in Mexico City, the Embassy is in constant touch with the law enforcement agencies to apprehend the culprits at the soonest and give justice to the family of the victim,” said a social media post by the Indian Embassy in Mexico.
The Capital Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it is working hand in hand with the Indian embassy, to try to clarify the homicide of the Indian citizen. Over 8,000 Indians live in Mexico, primarily in Mexico City.
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