(Trinidad Express) “Is this the way we have to leave this world?” This was the question posed to mourners at Saturday’s funeral for murdered doctor Avinash Mahajan at his Camden Road, Couva home.
Last Tuesday Mahajan was shot three times in the back by a man who pretended to be a customer last Tuesday at the family-owned service station along Southern Main Road, California.
An autopsy revealed Mahajan died from haemorrhaging caused by gunshot wounds. His left lung was damaged and his bowels were ruptured. On Saturday Pundit Khemraj Rambally said he believed this was no way to die. “God never said we have to die by a bullet … We are supposed to live life to the fullest … It is my humble belief that this is not the way we are supposed to leave this world,” he said.
Mahajan, 58, died while being treated at the Couva District Hospital. His wife of 30 years, Juliet, blamed inadequate health care service for her husband’s death.
An Indian national, Mahajan served in hospitals in this country after he migrated from Guyana in 1987 where he was an orthopaedic surgeon at a Georgetown hospital for seven years.
He last practised privately in Couva. The couple has a 17-year-old son, Akash. Police are still searching for the gunman who followed Mahajan into the office at the service station and shot him. The suspect searched Mahajan’s pockets and escaped with a quantity of cash.
