India, March 10 -- A 35-year-old sanitation worker was killed in Ulhasnagar on Monday allegedly by a resident of camp number 22 with whom the worker had had several altercations regarding improper garbage disposal. On Monday morning too, an argument broke out between the deceased and 32-year-old Durgesh Gupta which quickly escalated into a physical assault and ended with Gupta stabbing the worker multiple times with a kitchen knife, police officers familiar with the matter told Hindustan Times.

"The accused and the deceased had been fighting over improper disposal of waste by the accused. They had engaged in scuffles in the past as well. We have arrested the accused, and further investigation is underway," Shankar Awtade, senior police i...