PUNE: A 27-year-old delivery person was arrested on Wednesday on the charge of stabbing his colleague (22) to death over Rs 600 the previous day in a rented room at Borate Vasti in Chandannagar.The police identified the deceased as Rahul Javanjal. They arrested Ashish Magar of Yerawada, under Section 103 (murder) of the BNS.An officer from the Chandannagar police said they received a call from a private hospital in Kharadi on Sept 8 about the death of a man.The doctors informed the police that the victim’s friend claimed that Javanjal had died after falling on a sharp object inside his home.When the police team reached hospital, Magar told them that Javanjal had called him around 8pm on Sept 8 and informed him that he had suffered injuries near his chest and requested to take him to a hospital.“Magar then changed his statement when we took him to the room. He claimed that Javanjal had called him to the room on Sept 8, and when he was in the washroom, he heard Javanjal’s scream. He came out and saw Javanjal had stabbed himself. While taking him to a hospital on a scooter, Javanjal fainted and fell down. He then claimed to have taken Javanjal to the hospital in an autorickshaw,” a police officer said.The officer said the post-mortem report confirmed that Javanjal had died from a stab injury. The police interrogated Magar after his statement was found to have inconsistencies.Magar then admitted to having stabbed Javanjal over a dispute involving Rs600, which the latter had not returned.When Magar went to his room for the money, they had a heated argument, and Magar stabbed Javanjal after the latter allegedly abused him, the officer said, adding that investigation were on.
