Signboard designer bites ear of co-worker

Asignboard designer has been accused of biting off a chunk of his coworker’s ear after the latter hurled a shoe at him, heard a court on Monday.

The 33-year-old Pakistani worker had fixed a signboard and returned to his residence that he shares with his 28-year-old countryman signboard designer in June.

The designer asked his co-worker if he had collected the dues from the client for fixing the signboard, and the worker said no. In disbelief, the designer cursed his co-worker who got angry and hurled his shoe at the designer.

The two indulged in a heated argument and traded blows before the worker bit the designer in his wrist and the latter chewed up the back of his ear. Fellow flatmates stopped the fight and the worker was taken to hospital.

Prosecutors charged the designer of assaulting his countryman and causing him a 5 per cent permanent disfigurement in his ear.

A ruling will be issued on October 29.