Youth beaten to death over silly argument at salon

Bhubaneswar: A youth who entered an argument with two strangers over a random topic inside a salon in Bhubaneswar, was allegedly beaten to death by the duo.

While one of the accused has been nabbed by the Police, another is absconding.

As per reports, the deceased identified as P Kamesh entered an argument over a trivial topic with two other youth while having a hair cut in a salon at Mochi Sahi near Station Bazaar here today.

Furious after the verbal exchange, the two men left the shop and waited for Kamesh to come out of the salon. The duo then thrashed him with a bamboo stick leaving him critically injured. Although Kamesh was rushed to the Capital Hospital, he succumbed to his injuries.

“Kamesh was working as a salesman at a liquor shop. We have arrested one of the accused and are on lookout for the other who has absconded after the incident,” informed a senior police official.

Family of the deceased informed that Kamesh had returned from Shirdi on Saturday. “He never enters into arguments in the family, let alone with outsiders. We do not know why they killed him. He had no enmity with anyone,” said one of Kamesh’s family members.