RAIPUR, Aug. 4 -- A local Congress functionary on his way home was stabbed to death when he resisted a robbery attempt in Chhattisgarh's Durg district in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.

Police said they received information about the incident near Chikhli village on the Durg-Dhamdha road at 2 am on Tuesday.

The deceased, identified as Prakash Singh Kashyap (45), was the treasurer of the Congress unit in Durg.

Police said Kashyap and jos two friends had come for an outing to a mall in Durg. They were returning home on a motorcycle with the two associates when four unidentified men intercepted them. The assailants allegedly attacked the three with sticks and tried to rob them.

When Kashyap resisted, one of the attackers pulled ...