India, Jan. 25 -- A 33-year-old junior college teacher was stabbed to death following an argument with a fellow commuter on a local train at Malad station on Saturday evening, police said.

The deceased was identified as Alok Kumar Singh, a resident of Kandivali who was a mathematics teacher at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics in Vile Parle. The accused has not yet been identified and is absconding, police said.

Singh was travelling in a second-class compartment of a Churchgate-Borivali slow local train along with another teacher. As both he and the accused were alighting at Malad station, an argument broke out between them on the train and escalated on the platform, police said.

The incident occurred around 5.30 pm on Plat...