Howrah: A fruit seller allegedly stabbed and injured his cousin following his protest against the former's "threat to rape" the latter's sister, a class XI student, the police said.
The incident took place at Adra under Bagnan police station of Howrah district. The two families, who were distantly related, were not on good terms over some issues and the fruit seller, 25-year-old Sheikh Mojam, allegedly used to threaten the girl with rape, police said.
When the girl's elder brother Sheikh Raju met Mojam on the road on Monday, he protested against those threats and an infuriated Mojam stabbed him with a fruit cutting knife.
With the knife sticking to his abdomen, 22-year-old Raju was first taken to Bagnan Hospital and then to Uluberia Hospital but the weapon could be brought out, police said.
The youth was then to Calcutta Medical College and Hospital but it was not yet known whether the knife was brought out there, police said. Mojam is absconding.
