In a scuffle over urinating on a footpath between two persons cost a 30-year-old bus conductor his life as he was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant in Delhi’s Shastri Park in wee hours of Friday.
“At around 4:30 am Wasim Alvi, resident of Loni area, tried to sort out a quarrel between the two men when he was stabbed in his neck by an unknown man. The attacker was angry with the other man, Varun, when he saw him urinating on the footpath. Alvi was on the way to his home with his two friends when he saw two people quarreling on the road,” said Atul Thakur, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), North east district.
According to Mustaqim, who was with Wasim told the police that they along with Shakib were returning home after work in an auto rickshaw when near Khajoori from Shastri Park traffic signal a man flagged down the auto.
“The man, who identified himself as Varun, looked frightened and told us that an unknown man was threatening to kill him with a knife as he had seen him urinating on the footpath. Varun asked us for a lift and we agreed,” said Mustaqim.
“As Varun sat in auto, the unknown man started abusing and stood in front of auto and insisted that Varun be left there following which Wasim went out of the auto and asked the man to spare Varun as he had already apologised for his mistake. At this the man took out a long life and stabbed Wasim in his neck,” said Mustaqim. “We took Wasim to the Jag Prakash Hospital where he was declared brought dead,” said Mustaqim.