New Delhi: A spat over yielding space in a traffic jam ended fatally for a middle-aged motorcyclist, who was beaten to death by five people even as his sons unsuccessfully tried to get police to intervene. One of the accused has been arrested.

Shahnawaz, a 38-year-old resident of I.P. Estate area in east Delhi, was returning home from a family function with his two sons on a motorbike when it was hit by a car near Turkman Gate in Daryaganj on Sunday night, police said on Monday.