A lease dispute turned deadly at Hotel Bilas Inn in Guwahati Bora Service area on Monday when the leaseholder allegedly opened fire, killing five people linked to the hotel owner and critically injuring a sixth.
BY PC Bureau
October 27: Five people were killed and another was critically injured after a leaseholder allegedly opened fire inside Hotel Bilas Inn in Guwahati’s Bora Service area on Monday, with police identifying a long-running dispute over the hotel’s lease as the suspected trigger for the shootinghe attack left six people with gunshot wounds. Five died from their injuries, while the sixth victim remained under treatment, according to Guwahati Police Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta. Police said all five deceased were associated with the hotel’s owner.
The leaseholder has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Investigators have also seized the weapon allegedly used in the attack, a licensed .32-bore pistol, and are questioning the accused as they reconstruct the sequence of events.
VERY disturbing visuals from Guwahati.
Atleast 5 people killed and many injured after an unknown gunmen opened fire at a hotel lobby in Bora Service.
Only recently Assam Govt had started to roll out gun license, the policy definitely needs to be revisited.
Assam cannot be made another Bihar or UP!
— Saurav Choudhury (@sauravv123) October 26, 2026
Mahanta told PTI that preliminary findings pointed to a dispute over the hotel’s lease agreement. He confirmed that the leaseholder had allegedly fired the shots that killed the five people associated with the owner.
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The circumstances leading to the confrontation, including how the disagreement escalated into a fatal shooting, remain under investigation. Police are expected to examine the accounts of witnesses and other available evidence to establish the precise sequence of events and determine the circumstances in which the weapon was used.
The recovery of the licensed pistol is a key part of the investigation. Officials have not, in the information available so far, disclosed whether the accused had made prior threats or whether any earlier complaints had been filed over the lease dispute in Guwahati.
The names of the deceased and the arrested leaseholder had not been released in the initial police account. Further details are expected as investigators continue questioning the accused and examine evidence gathered from the scene.
While the preliminary investigation points to the lease-related property dispute as the immediate trigger, police have yet to establish publicly all the events that preceded the shooting. The motive, the precise course of the confrontation and the individual circumstances of each victim’s death remain subject to the ongoing investigation.
