Mangalore, February 5: A group of miscreants stabbed a youth to death during a Nemotsava at MRPL Colony at Chelyaru under the limits of Suratkal police station in the wee hours of Sunday.
The victim has been identified as Manikantha alias Mani (32), a resident of Munchuru. He was working as a bus cleaner.
It is learnt that Mani had been to the annual Nemotsava of Kod'dabbu demigod on Saturday night. A quarrel broke out between him and few other local residents identified as Santosh alias Santu, Satish alias Sachchu, Hemant, Vasant, Pradeep, Shekhar alias Sandee and Niranjan for a trivial reason in the Nemotsava. All of them were drunk.
The fight continued when the same group met Mani at Shanti Katte, half a kilo-metre away from the place of Nemotsava.
A complained lodged at Suratka police station by the relatives of Mani stated that the miscreants stabbed Mani on his chest, stomach and back at around 2:30 am.
Although Suratkal police rushed to the spot within few minutes and managed to shift a critically injured Mani to the hospital, he succumbed to stab injuries before reaching hospital.
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