Delhi Police has apprehended eight people, including two juveniles, in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in northeast Delhi’s Seelampur area.
The nine accused, arrested on Saturday, have been identified as Sahil (18), Zikra (19), Sohaib (35), Nafish (32), Aneesh (19), Zahida (42) and Vikas (29), officials said.
The incident occurred on Thursday evening, where the victim, identified as Kunal, was attacked by a group of youths in New Seelampur.
He was rushed to JPC Hospital by his family members, where doctors declared him dead. Preliminary investigation revealed that the attack was a result of an old enmity.
Police said that Zikra, Sahil and the two juveniles conspired and carried out the fatal attack while the other five were involved in harbouring and helping the main accused escape. 19-year-old Zikra worked as a bouncer for jailed gangster Hashim Baba’s wife.
A case under sections 103(1) (murder) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) was registered at the Seelampur police station and multiple teams were formed to investigate the incident, police said.
How The Nine Accused Planned The Murder
The chilling murder was allegedly planned by Sahil along with his associates to ambush Kunal. The attackers surrounded the minor in the J Block slum area of New Seelampur and stabbed him multiple times, killing him on the spot.
Following the arrest of Zikra, locally referred to as ‘Lady Don’, police teams conducted raids across Delhi-NCR and in parts of Uttar Pradesh, including Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad and Amroha.
During the interrogation, Zikra revealed that in November last year, her cousin Sahil was attacked by Kunal’s friends Lala and Shambhu.
Although Kunal was present at the time of the attack, he was not named in the FIR as he was a minor, the officer said.
The cops have collected evidence supporting the role of the accused and efforts are underway to recover the weapons used in the crime.
