Engineer stabbed to death after spat over dog in Rajasthan

An engineer was stabbed to death allegedly by a government employee after a spat over a pet dog in Rajasthan's Alwar district, police said on Monday.

incident occurred on Sunday night when Santosh Sharma took his dog outside for a walk and it barked at accused, Akash Dalal, y said.

Dalal objected to it and during spat brought a knife from his flat and attacked Sharma. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared de, SHO of Alwar Sar Police Station Ramniwas said.

Both Sharma and Dalal lived in same residential complex. While Sharma was an engineer working with a private company, Dalal was a tax assistant.

" accused has been detained and is being interrogated," he said, ding, that body was handed over to family members after postmortem on Monday.