A23-year-old man allegedly stabbed his younger brother to death here for exhausting his mobile internet data, police said on Friday.

According to the police, the family members found the victim, bleeding profusely, at the roof of the house late on Wednesday night and rushed him to a hospital where he was declared dead.

The accused had fled after stabbing his younger brother and was arrested from the railway station on Friday, they said.

“On Wednesday evening, Raman took his younger brother Roy to the roof of the house and scolded him for consuming his internet data.

“In a fit of rage, Raman stabbed Roy four to five times in his chest and fled,” police said.

According to a police official, the accused was mentally unstable.

A few days ago, a 16-year-old mentally unstable boy was apprehended for allegedly battering to death an elderly couple with a stone in Garholi village in Uttar Pradesh, police said. According to police, the incident took place when Shrinath Maurya (70) and his wife Maina Devi (65) were sleeping in the verandah of their house. Children playing in the vicinity of the couple’s house raised an alarm after seeing the bodies, they said. Superintendent of Police Sudhir Kumar Singh said the accused lives in the same village.