A 30-year-old man at Janugora in suburban Parsudih thana area was assaulted and killed when he tried to break a fight between a couple.

The victim identified as Rajendra Kumar Sharma had tried to break a fight between his neighbours who were having an argument in an intoxicated state. The 20-year-old son of the couple attacked the victim and hit him with a stick on his head. Sharma's head cracked causing him to fall in a pool of blood. Soon the neighbours rushed the injured to Sadar Hospital in Khasmahal where the doctors on emergency duty declared him dead.

The incident took place at around 11 pm on Thursday. The assailant identified as Rahul Sireng had instantly fled the spot after the attack, but was caught at a relative's house in adjoining Sundarnagar thana area on Friday morning.

"The victim Rajendra Kumar Sharma was the immediate neighbour of the assailant. As the assailant's parents were quarrelling having consumed liquor, the victim and his family could not sleep due to the commotion. Then only he had gone over to the neighbour's house and forbidden to quarrel. While persuading the drunk couple, the victim had also scolded them. After the couple were made to stop quarrelling, the victim started returning back home. But as he stepped out of the neighbour's house, the couple's son had attacked him with the stick and had fled," said Ajay Kumar, OC of Parsudih thana.

The OC said the victim died on his way to the Sadar Hospital in Khasmahal which was about four km from the spot.

"After the arrest of the assailant, we interrogated him to know the reason behind attacking his neighbour. The assailant, Rahul Sering confessed that he got angry as the way Sharma had scolded his parents was very humiliating," the OC pointed out while talking to this website.

The police have seized the stick that the assailant used in the assault and sent the body to MGM Medical College mortuary for post-mortem after a Covid test. The police sent the accused to Ghaghidih Central Jail after taking him to the medical college hospital for Covid test and producing him before a judicial magistrate in the afternoon.