India, May 21 -- A 42-year-old vegetable trader was hacked to death with an axe outside a liquor store on Old Railway Road late Monday night following a sudden altercation with a delivery boy, police said on Tuesday. The accused was arrested within 12 hours, they added.

According to police, Satish Kumar, a resident of Subhash Nagar, Sector 8, and a trader at Khandsa mandi, was found lying in a pool of blood near his running car outside RDS wine shop around 11.20pm. "He had a deep cut on the left side of his neck. He was rushed to a private hospital in Khandsa but declared dead on arrival," said Sandeep Kumar, public relations officer, Gurugram police.

The accused, Dharmendra Kumar, 34, also a resident of Subhash Nagar, was identified th...