KUNDARA: Six people including Tamil Nadu natives were injured after an argument over salt in chicken curry served at a hotel ended in stabbing. A group of Tamil Nadu natives and hotel owners clashed after the gang complained that the chicken curry had no salt. The incident took place yesterday at 1 am at the Kuttiyil Hotel located at the Kuttiyil junction in Keralapuram. Six people were injured.

Prince (35) from Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, his maternal brother Robinson (40) and Arun (23) from Ambasamudram came to eat at the hotel. Prince told Robinson that the chicken curry he ordered had no salt. Hearing this, the hotel employee called the owner's son Mohammad Shafin. During the altercation, Shafinbeat Prince. The natives of Tamil Nadu, who were beaten up, left the hotel but came back later leading to further altercation.

'Hotel owner Mahashur Koya's sons, Mohammad Shafin and Mohammad Azhar, the driver Rashidin Islam, and Tamil Nadu residents were all stabbed. Robinson was seriously injured and admitted to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College Hospital and Prince to Paripally Medical College Hospital. Muhammad Shafin, Muhammad Azhar and Rashidin Islam were admitted to the private medical college hospital in Kollam. Robinson, who was beaten with a wire rod, has 27 stitches on his head.' - said the police.