Man killed after spat over card game

Jaipur: A confrontation that started while playing game of cards ended on a tragic note when a 27-year-old man was killed after being attacked by a knife at Faqeeron Ki Dungari area under Brahmpuri police station on Friday. Police have arrested the main accused within some hours after the murder while two others booked for criminal conspiracy were at large.
According to police, four persons including the victim identified as Ashfaq were playing cards near a temple at the Brahm Puri locality at 5.30 pm. Suddenly, while playing all of them entered into a verbal spat. The verbal confrontation took an ugly turn when the accused attacked the victim with a knife.
A large number of onlookers gathered at the spot after the murder, however, while the victim was attacked none came for the help.
“The accused identified as Shayar (25) bring out a knife from his pocket and stabbed the victim many times. The victim though cried for help but none of the public who were witnessing it came for the help and nobody shown any residence to this murder,” said a senior officer of Jaipur (North).
The incident took place at 6pm. Sooafter hitting the victim, the three accused, including the main accused managed to flee from the scene. A team of senior police officers and FSL team also reached at the spot. “We also got inputs that Shayar and Ashfaq are neighbours and their families are in some dispute and the families also fight with each other on trivial issues almost on day-to-day basis. Initially we detained Shayar who later confessed his crime and was arrested,” the officer added.
Rajiv Pachar, the deputy commissioner of police (North), said, “One person has been arrested in the case while two others who were part of the conspiracy managed to flee. Prima facie it appears that they were gambling while playing cards and at some point they had some dispute which made the verbal spat ugly and it ended up with a murder.”