India, June 12 -- A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in New Delhi's Munirka after a fight triggered when he tried to prevent a friend from assaulting his girlfriend. Police on Wednesday said they arrested the accused, Lalhriatpuia , 23, who is from Mizoram, for alleged assault and stabbing to death Prakash . The two inebriated men got into a fight at the residence of the victim's girlfriend, who is also from Mizoram, in the early hours of Tuesday.

Police said Parkash, who was from Rajasthan's Alwar, was allegedly beating up his girlfriend when Lalhriatpuia intervened. Parkash assaulted Lalhriatpuia, who allegedly retaliated with a knife and a pair of scissors in a fit of rage. He suffered stab wounds in his neck and died of excessive...