Mumbai: A man has been killed after getting into a fight over taking too long to use a public toilet.
Simon Lingeree, 26, was using shared facilities in his Mumbai apartment building - or chawl - on Saturday evening while another resident impatiently waited outside.
When he emerged from the toilet, he got into a heated argument with Santosh Kargutkar, 40, over the amount of time he had taken.
Kargutkar hit Lingeree in the head and fled the scene when he lost consciousness, police said.
The victim was rushed to hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
Senior police inspector Rarao Desai said: 'It first started off as a war of words but Kargutkar soon assaulted Lingeree. The two of them got involved in a physical fight but there were no weapons involved.'
Police are waiting for the results of a post-mortem but believe Mr Lingeree died as a result of an internal injury.
Inspector Desai told the Times Of India: 'It seems that the man died because of some internal injury he got during the fight.
'Based on eyewitness accounts we were able to identify the accused and track Kargutkar down in a few hours.'
Kargutkar has been charged with murder and remains in police custody.
Residents of chawls in India frequently have to share toilets and other amenities.
Rajesh Paswan, a resident in the chawl where both Lingeree and Kargutkar lived, said: 'We have absolutely no public sanitation facilities. Sometimes basic human needs take over all rationale, and this is what happened. It is tragic that two lives have been destroyed over such a petty issue.'
