A street food stall worker today died of burns, three days after being admitted to hospital following an altercation with a customer, in central Kolkata.
Police said the accused customer Mohammed Zakir has been arrested by Kolkata Police and charged under sectiion of unintentional murder.
On Sunday afternoon Zakir, a regular customer at the stall on the Ezra Street in the Hare Street Police Station limits, asked for rotis from Lalan Singh (27), a worker at the street food kiosk.
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On being told that rotis were not made in the daytime, a drunk Zakir verbally abused Singh which soon turned violent, the cop said adding that suddenly Zakir pushed Singh and he fell on a cooking pot with fish curry being made.
"The hot fish curry scalded Singh's upper face and as a result his eyes and face got badly hurt... He sustanied almost 85 per cent burns," the police officer said.
Locals rushed Singh, a resident of Bihar, to Kolkata Medical college where he died this morning.
Zakir, who had fled from the spot, was later arrested from the area.
