coimbatore a 21yearold man died after he was assaulted by his girlfriends uncle at her house at mayiladumparai near chettipalayam in the city on monday the man who was in an inebriated condition went there around 1215am to celebrate her birthdaypolice said v prasanth of gandhi nagar at sundarapuram was a loadman he was in love with an 18yearold girl for three years their parents learned about their relationship and decided to marry them off after a year police said the girl used to speak with prasanth daily using her fathers phone for the past two days her father had stopped her from speaking with him on sunday night prasanth decided to celebrate her birthday brought a cake and went to her house with three of his friends the four men scaled the compound wall of the house and woke up the family members to celebrate the birthday irked over this m vignesh 29 a call taxi driver picked up a quarrel with him vignesh in a fit of rage picked up a sickle and attacked prasanth and his friends vignesh is a cousin brother to girls mother he has been living with the family for more than 10 years a police officer said prasanth suffered injuries on his chest and left shoulder both the girls family members and prasanths friends thought the injuries were not serious prasanth too did not display any discomfort while on their way to the coimbatore medical college hospital prasanths twowheeler ran out of petrol at sundarapuram his friends called the 108 ambulance service by the time they reached the hospital prasanth had died the officer addedthe chettipalayam police registered a case against vignesh under section 302 of the indian penal code and arrested him on monday