Click to play videoNew Delhi: BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan, who was shot at by his younger brother on Saturday morning, continues to be critical.
His liver is still bleeding and he continues to be on a respirator in the intensive care unit. Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy said Pravin Mahajan, who shot the BJP leader, is "normal" and of "sound mind". The attack was pre-planned, he said.
Pravin's lawyer claimed his client is "mentally ill and the (Mahajan) family knows it".
Roy denied this and said Pravin shot Mahajan due to "personal reasons" and "there was no sudden provocation for his action against his elder brother."
Pravin, 45, was arrested after he surrendered before the police and will be produced before a court on Sunday. "There is nothing to indicate that he was no a man of unsound mind," Roy said.
What happened when |
 BJP General Secretary Pramod Mahajan was shot by his younger brother Pravin at his Worli residence Saturday morning following a heated dispute. |
| Pravin is a Thane-based builder. It's believed he left his house in Thane at around 5.30 am to go to meet his elder brother. |
| He reached Pramod Mahajan's residence at Worli at around 8:00 o clock carrying a licensed PISTOL. |
| He was not challenged by the security and entered Mahajan's 15th floor home at Purna Apartments. |
| Mahajan was present there along with his wife. An argument ensued after which Pravin pulled out his Browning pistol and fired three shots, two of those hit Mahajan in the chest, while one misfired. |
| The family cried for help. One of the first people to reach the spot was BJP leader and Mahajans' neighbour Jaywantiben Mehta. |
| It's believed Pravin Mahajan then left, only to surrender at the Worli police station some time later where he was arrested under section 307. |
Pravin shot at Mahajan, 57, thrice with his 9 mm Browning revolver at the BJP leader’s 14th floor apartment in a posh apartment block in Worli at around 8 a.m.
Initial reports said that the two had argued over a property dispute, but another brother, Prakash, denied this. "How can there be a dispute when there is no property," he said.
Pravin, a building contractor, lives in suburban Thane and came to Mahajan’s home in a car, said police. After the incident, he surrendered at the Worli police station and was arrested. A PTI report said Pravin told the police that Mahajan ill-treated and humiliated him.
BJP leader Jayawantiben Mehta, a neighbour of Mahajan, said she heard loud voices from Mahajan's house in the morning. "I was about to take the lift when I saw Mahajan’s wife coming down in the elevator. She was crying and all she could say was that her husband had been shot," said Mehta.
"I saw Gopinath Munde (a senior BJP leader and Mahajan’s brother-in-law) rushing to Mahajan's house. There is usually no security outside Mahajan's house. The securitymen were on the third floor and I don't think they heard anything," she said.
Joint Commissioner of Police Aroop Patnaik said "Three shots were fired. One missed and two hit Mahajan in body the and chest."
A doctor in the apartment complex rushed Mahajan to the Hinduja Hospital where he was immediately operated upon.
The bullets severed the main vein in Mahajan's abdomen, shattered the right side of the liver, the top of his pancreas and damaged the small intestine, said Dr Anupam Verma, the dean at Hinduja Hospital.
After a four-hour surgery, doctors were able to stop the bleeding except from the liver Doctors have been unable to remove the bullets from his body.
Mahajan was given 25 units of blood till afternoon, but his BP is not consistent. Adding to the doctors' concern is the fact that Mahajan is a diabetic.
Dr Sudanshu Bhattacharya, one of the doctors who operated upon Mahajan, said "major bleeding" has been stemmed but his condition is "quite critical". Two Army doctors are at the Hinduja Hospital for consultations.
The Prime Minister and the President expressed shock at the incident and said they pray that Mahajan’s recovers soon.
BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh cut short their yatras and rushed to Mumbai. "In this situation only prayers can help," said Advani.
(With inputs from PTI and AP)
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