A long-simmering feud over a food stall and alleged property encroachment ended in a gruesome murder near the Global Pagoda-Essel World Jetty Road on Friday night.

The victim, identified as Dashrath Chavan, 37, ran Sanskar Cafe, a vada pav stall near the Pagoda. Police said Chavan was brutally stabbed to death in full public view around 11.20 pm, allegedly by members of a rival family with whom he had been locked in a bitter dispute for nearly five years.