DHARWAD, 11 JULY

A 25-year-old man was stabbed in a row over a loan, taken by his elder brother from a person known to the latter, in Dharwad town on Friday morning. Raghavendra Gaikwad, 25, a resident of Kanthi Galli, was stabbed by a person identified in preliminary reports as Mallik, around 10am on Friday, police said.  The tip of the knife broke and was stuck in Gaikwad’s body. It was later surgically removed at the Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) at Hubballi. Police recovered the remaining part of the knife from the crime scene, and produced it as material evidence at the court. Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner N Shashikumar confirmed that Raghavendra's elder brother had obtained a loan from Malik.