India, June 27 -- A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death and his friends were injured in a fight between two groups near the Transport Nagar in Punjabi Bagh on Sunday night, police said, adding four people have been arrested.

Police said the victims were smoking in the vicinity of the accused, which led to a disagreement between them and snowballed into a fistfight. They identified the deceased as Durgesh Singh, and his friends as Narveer Singh, Kaptan Singh and Akash Kumar.

"The argument escalated into a fight and the accused, who were three to four in number, attacked them with a sharp object and the stones lying around. When the accused left, the victims found their friend Durgesh severely injured. They took him to hospital, where he...