Rishikesh: In a horrifying incident, a servant of Gurudwara was killed by a man over food at Langar in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh on Monday, the police said. The incident took place around 2 pm near Laxman Jhula road and the deceased has been identified as Kapil Shah. Langar was being distributed to the poor at the gate of the Hemkund Gurudwara.
A man reached there and asked for food at Langar, but by then the food was over. When Kapil's son told that the food was over, enraged by this, the man attacked the servant of Gurudwara with a screwdriver multiple times, due to which Shah suffered grievous injuries, the eyewitness said. It is said that the accused was in an intoxicated state.
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Kapil was shifted to a hospital by the locals and later, he was referred to AIIMS where the doctors declared him brought dead. "We shifted the body to the government hospital for post-mortem. An investigation has been started into the incident," the police said. Earlier, a Class XII student was killed following a quarrel between two student groups in Delhi's Southeast. There was a quarrel between two groups of students near Hansraj Sethi Park during which the boy suffered stab wounds in the chest. The victim was admitted to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. A case under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code has been registered. The CCTV footage from the area has been checked.
