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DALTONGANJ: A 45-year-old man was strangled to death by his neighbours following an altercation over open defecation in Sukra Bazar area of Palamu district in Jharkhand on Thursday.

Police said the victim, Manager Ram, defecated in the open and his neighbour Chotu Kumar took offence to it. “On Thursday morning, Ram defecated in the open, which was objected to by Kumar, leading to a brawl. Sometime later, Kumar along with his two brothers, Mahender and Sanjay, attacked Ram at his home. Their mother Bijili Devi also accompanied them. While two brothers pinned Ram down, the other one strangled him to death,” police officer Vishnu Singh said.

The three brothers, their mother and father Beefan Ram were named in the FIR . While Sanjay managed to escape, the other four have been arrested, police said, adding that the case was being investigated from all angles.

