New Delhi, July 30 -- A 40-year-old photojournalist was stabbed eight times after he allegedly objected to a man feeding a community dog in the middle of the road in Noida's Sector 74 on Monday night, police said. The suspect was arrested following a brief gunfight with the police early Tuesday, during which he sustained a bullet injury to the leg.

The victim, Pramod Sharma, who works for a Hindi daily, lives with his family in the Sarfabad locality of Sector 74.

Sharma said the incident occurred around 8pm, just 100 metres from his house. "I was returning from work when I slowed down near a speed breaker. A man approached my car and, through the half-open window, stabbed me eight times in the right shoulder with a sharp-edged weapon," ...