A man in Vakola has been arrested for stabbing family members of an externed criminal, after they went to his house, allegedly armed with sticks, demanding to know why he had told the cops about the criminal’s return to the area.

The accused man stabbed the externee’s mother and his two brothers, one of whom has been critically injured. Later, for treating his own wounds, he went to the same hospital where cops had taken the injured family members, and was arrested. At the time of going to press, Vakola police were recording the FIR.