belagavi a 55yearold paan shop owner was stabbed to death for refusing to give credit to a customer the incident took place in the city late on tuesday night police arrested the accused in the afternoon a customer identified as dattatreya entered into a bitter argument with paan shop owner balakrishna shetty for refusing to give him credit as earlier payment was pending the accused also brought up a issue of his missing mobile phone and alleged that the phone was with shetty and demanded that he hand it over shetty hailing from kundapur in udupi district had been residing in the city since the past 30 years and was planning move back to his home town in two months as he was said annoyed with customers who would buy from his shop on credit and not bother to pay the amount some local goons were also troubling him demanding free tobacco cigarette and other items as he was planning to shut his business here he was collecting balance from the regular customers and stopped giving fresh credit dattareya was offended by this in the afternoon dattatreya during the argument made attempts to hit him but he was stopped by the locals he then alleged that shetty had his cellphone that had been missing from a few days dattatreya later left the place at around 11am after shetty closed the shop and returned home dattatreya followed him into his house and stabbed him with a sharp knife hearing shettys screams neighbours rushed to the spot only to find him lying in pool of blood shahapur police arrested the accused and have registered a case