The 28-year-old Mayank Mandot, the second tuition teacher to be stabbed in the city within a week, was an ambitious and humble man who loved teaching, his friends and relatives recalled. Having had a modest beginning from Borivli, Mandot had expanded his tuition classes to six different locations in Mumbai. A teacher at heart, Mandot is remembered by family and friends as someone who wanted to do great things.

"He began teaching kids even as he was himself a college student," one of his college seniors told mid-day. A FORMER student of the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mandot had completed his graduation in Bachelor of Pharmacy in 2014 but had begun teaching kids even before he completed his graduation.