By IANS,
New Delhi : In another killing triggered by blinding rage, a 19-year-old youth allegedly stabbed to death a man following an argument in a north Delhi shop when he was asked to stop joking around and speed up his purchases, police said Wednesday.
The incident took place in Samaipur Badli area Tuesday night, shortly after a pilot crushed a man in a road rage incident in upscale Khan Market.
Naval Kishore was arrested soon after he killed Mukesh, 30, with a sharp-edged weapon, officials said. He was nabbed by a beat constable when the victim’s nephew raised an alarm.
“Kishore along with his friend had gone to a shop to buy curd but started joking around with the shopkeeper,” a police official said.
“Mukesh, who was waiting in queue with his nephew Rahul, got irritated and asked Kishore to speed it up which led to a heated argument between the two,” he added.
An agitated Kishore ran to his home and brought a sharp-edged weapon and stabbed the victim repeatedly.
The accused tried to escape but was caught by a beat constable.
Mukesh was rushed to the Bhim Rao Ambedkar hospital nearby and pronounced dead Wednesday morning.
The case comes a day after four people enraged over being denied a screwdriver at a mobile phone shop stabbed a 17-year-old to death and injured his brother in north Delhi.
In a case of road rage Tuesday, a Jet Airways pilot ran over another driver after their cars grazed each other in the upscale Khan market.
Just last month, a plate of chicken tikka claimed a young life. A software professional in Rohini was shot dead in cold-blood after he accidentally knocked down a plate of chicken tikka.
Last year, a 42-year-old driver of a chartered bus was mercilessly stoned to death because a restless bunch in a Qualis could not overtake the vehicle.
The latest Delhi Police statistics show that killings over trivial issues became commonplace in the capital in 2010 – be it eating from a vendor without paying money, petty quarrel among children, dispute among roommates over keeping keys to the room and using mobile phone to call someone.