Undertrial stabbed to death with spoon in jail

MYSURU: A murder accused was fatally stabbed with a spoon at the Mysuru Central Prison last week. In an attack that raised communal tensions in the city, undertrial Kiran Shetty, 20, repeatedly stabbed Mohammed Mustafa, 31, with a sharpened spoon after lunch. A police officer said Kiran smuggled the spoon from the jail kitchen two days before and turned it into a weapon by sharpening it. He stabbed Mustafa on the face, neck, and the abdomen. Police Commissioner AS Rao said Kiran attacked the victim after he left for the jail's dispensary to buy medicine. The duo reportedly had arguments earlier in the month over the murder of Prashanth Poojari.