Man stabbed to death for protesting power theft bid

BARASAT: A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death at Mannanpara near Duttapukur station in North 24-Parganas on Monday night after he refused to allow his neighbour to draw electricity from his house. No one has been arrested. No one has been arrested so far.
Police said trouble broke out around 10.30pm when Rahamat Ali Sheikh, a mason by profession, refused to oblige his next-door neighbour Nepal Sarkar to draw power from his house after a power cut in Nepal's home.
"Sarkar and some of his friends had been drinking when lights went out in his house. Power supply to Sheikh's house was, however, not interrupted. Sarkar then went to his house and asked him to provide an electric connection to his house for the night. But Sheikh refused," said Akram Mollah, a local resident.
Despite Sheikh strongly opposing Sarkar's bid to draw power from his house, Sarkar allegedly tried to do that forcibly. Sheikh then drove Sarkar out of his home.
Later, Sarkar and his friends Arun Das and Toton Das, all of whom were drunk, rushed to Sheikh's house and dragged him out. They then started beating him up mercilessly. One of them allegedly took out a dagger and stabbed him to death. The assailant, however, managed to flee the spot after the murder.
The victim's body lay in a pool of blood beside the railway track. It was later noticed by locals who took him to RG Kar Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Police were informed and a team from Duttapukur outpost reached the spot. "After preliminary probe, we suspect that the murder was the fallout of a rivalry between two neighbours. We are conducting raids to nab the culprits. Some persons are being questioned in this connection," a police officer said.