27-year-old stabbed in drunken brawl dies

Bengaluru: A drunken brawl over a petty issue allegedly resulted in the death of a 27-year-old man in the Pulikeshi Nagar Police Station limits of the city. Prabhu, 27, was reportedly stabbed by his friend during a fight on Sunday.

He succumbed to the injuries in a hospital late on Monday. The accused is on the run. According to the police, the brawl took place among a group of friends around 10 pm in a playground where they had been drinking on Sunday.

The sister of the accused person saw her brother drinking with his friends and pestered him to return home. When the latter rejected her request, she shouted at him for wasting time with his friends. An inebriated Prabhu took offence at this and slapped the girl which enraged her brother, the accused.

A fist fight erupted between Prabhu and the accused even as the other friends tried to pacify them. It was revealed that Prabhu allegedly pulled out a knife to attack the accused, but the accused grabbed the knife from his hand and stabbed him