Youth stabbed to death over cricket ball hitting woman
Kiran Kumar, a 20-year-old from Vijayawada, was reportedly stabbed to death on Tuesday after he hit a woman with a ball while playing cricket at a local ground. The woman and her son picked a quarrel with Kiran after the ball hit her. Kiran apologised to the woman but her son stabbed him in the chest and ran away.
In a shocking incident, a youth was stabbed to death in Vijayawada on Tuesday after his cricket ball hit a woman in the area while playing galli cricket.The deceased identified as Kiran Kumar, a native of Krishnalanka locality of the city, was playing cricket along with few of his friends in P&T colony ground. As per eyewitness account, the ball accidentally went and hit Devaki Devi who lives in the premises of the ground. Enraged over it, the lady and her son picked a quarrel with Kiran.The youth however apologised to Devaki Devi but her son P Srikanth Chowdary, who was angry over the issue, stabbed him in the chest with a knife and fled away. Kiran's friends then rushed him to a hospital where he was declared brought dead.According to police, the 20-year-old deceased was an engineering student and the accused Srikanth had a history of animosity with him. Kumar, in past had raised objection to Srikanth driving his bike in the colony at a very high speed, and the two had arguments over the issue.The Krishnalanka police has registered a case and took the accused Srikanth into custody while Kiran's body was sent for postmortem.