The Hindu : New Delhi News : Man dies while watching quarrel

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Wednesday, Nov 17, 2004

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Man dies while watching quarrel

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, NOV. 16. In a freak accident, a young man was killed after he was accidentally hit on the head by a brick at Uttam Nagar in West Delhi on Sunday.

The brick was pushed off the railing during a scuffle between his fellow tenant and the uncle of a girl who had accused him of teasing her. The girl's uncle and the tenant have been arrested.

According to the police, the girl, living in a slum cluster at Hastsal in Uttam Nagar, had complained to her uncle, Brij Mohan, that a tenant living in the house opposite theirs had been teasing him. On Monday evening, Brij Mohan decided to confront the tenant, identified as Kamal. However, Kamal told him that it was his fellow tenant Niranjan who had teased his niece.

Brij Mohan then went to confront Niranjan. Soon the duo entered into a heated argument leading to fisticuffs. As they grappled with each other, one of them fell over the television antennae, which had been propped on the railing with the help of bricks. One of the bricks landed on Kamal's head.

He was rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital where the doctors declared him dead on arrival. Subsequently, the police were informed.

A case under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has been registered at Uttam Nagar police station and Brij Mohan and Niranjan have been arrested. Further investigations in the case are on.

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