In broad daylight, unidentified persons on Monday stabbed a man to death in the Mana area on the outskirts of Raipur city.
Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police Sukhnandan Rathore said the victim was Vijendra Markandey alias Lalla, a resident of Satnami Para in Mana Basti.
In the morning, when Markandey was in Bazar Chowk near a temple, four to five assailants came out of a car and attacked him with sharp weapons after an altercation with him, the officer quoted witnesses as saying.
Locals rushed Markandey to a hospital where doctors declared him dead.
The cause behind the murder is not known, Rathore said.