pune a 25yearold man was booked on wednesday for allegedly murdering his relative at kalvad vasthi in lohegaon late on tuesday nightthe suspect steven swamy has been absconding after the incident the police said the deceased victor ratnam 28 of kharadi used to work as a barber in a haircutting saloon victims elder brother william ratnam has registered a case of murder case against his cousin swamy under section 302 of the indian penal code with the airport police stationswamy used to like his sisterinlaw christina 25 who has been married to the complainant for 12 years said senior police inspector prakash gharge of the airport police stationever since the ratnams came to know of swamys intentions they warned both swamy and christina against meeting each other resultingly swamys relationship with his family became sour added ghargeon tuesday night at 945 swamy came to christinas house in kalvad vasthi and started beating her up for ignoring his advances police saidafter christina had raised an alarm william and victor who were sitting in the next room came to her rescue they tried to overpower swamy but he suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed victor in the chest and fled victor was rushed to the sassoon general hospital but was proclaimed dead on arrival gharge said adding that christinas 11yearold daughter was also present while the drama unfoldedinvestigating officer inspector ramesh galande said victors body was handed over to his family after the postmortem at sassoon general hospital the police have launched a manhunt to trace swamyswamy who was working as a loader in the cargo department of an airlines company was addicted to liquor he has studied up to standard three and drew a salary of rs 3000 galande added