A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his neighbour to death in Uttarakhand’s Selakui following an argument over the neighbour not being invited to the accused’s daughter’s first birthday party, police said on Wednesday.
The Selakui police station received information through the control room and reached the spot. Rajpal was taken to Subharti Hospital in a 108 ambulance, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
The deceased, Rajpal, and the accused, Jitendra Kumar, lived as tenants in the same building in Jamanpur, according to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dehradun Pramendra Dobhal. The knife allegedly used in the crime was also recovered at his instance, he said. Police teams were formed to trace Jitendra, who was arrested on Tuesday from Mental Hospital Road in Sahaspur.
Based on a complaint from Rajpal’s family, a case was registered against Jitendra under Section 103(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which says anyone who commits murder faces the death penalty or imprisonment for life, along with a mandatory fine.
