INDIA: Senior citizen sacrifices his life fighting for social values

. NEW DELHI, India / ExpressIndia.com / News / August 14, 2009 Senior citizen stabbed to death in van By Vaibhav Vats Following a minor argument, a senior citizen was stabbed to death in a RTV van in East Delhi’s Kalyanpuri area. Vishwa Nath Sehgal, a 69-year-old retired BHEL mechanic, was travelling from the Kalyan Vaas vegetable market to his Shashi Garden home in the RTV van plying on route 343A, a police officer said. As the RTV headed past the Chand Cinema, Sehgal had an argument with three youths. They were blocking the exit and apparently harassing a woman who wanted to get off. When Sehgal objected to their misbehaviour, an argument ensued. Then one of the youths whipped out a knife and stabbed him in the thigh, said the bus conductor, Parwana. The driver took the vehicle to the nearest police post across the road, after which they rushed Sehgal to the nearby Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital. But he had lost a lot of blood and died at the hospital soon afterwards. Two of the youths have been arrested. Kalu alias Tekchand and Mahesh, both below 25 years in age, are being interrogated about the whereabouts of their absconding accomplice. The police version Deputy Comissioner of Police (East) Anand Mohan, however, denied the involvement of any woman in the episode. “There was an altercation between the accused and the victim, who wanted them to move from the footboard of the bus and make way for others. They resisted and as the matter turned ugly, they stabbed the victim,” the officer said. He also said that the youths arrested belong to a gang of pickpockets. [rc] © 2009 The Indian Express Limited.