Two stab to death old man in Chhattisgarh over bursting firecrackers

Two men stabbed to death an elderly man following a heated argument over bursting firecrackers outside the victim’s house in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, police said on Tuesday (October 21, 2025).

A police officer said the accused, Sanjay and Shubham, were bursting firecrackers in front of the house where the 60-year-old victim Ganesh Bairagi lived and the argument started when Mr. Bairagi’s daughter-in-law objected to the same.

The officer added that as the argument heated up, Sanjay and Shubham took out a small cutter and chased the woman into her house where Mr. Bairagi was having dinner with his family inside. As he tried to intervene and calm the duo down, they abused him and attacked him with the cutter repeatedly. The victim collapsed and was rushed to a hospital in Supela, where doctors declared him dead. The attackers fled the scene but were arrested on Tuesday, said the officer.