Minor murders girl to avenge insult

NEW DELHI: A teenage boy allegedly lured a 14-year-old girl to the basement of an under-construction mall in east Delhi on Saturday, spiked her soft drink and then strangulated her to death, allegedly to take revenge over a two-year-old incident, police said. The 17-year-old suspect, who was apprehended on Sunday morning, allegedly told the police that he held a grudge against the girl for complaining about him to their tuition teacher for using foul language. “The complaint had led to the boy getting reprimanded by their teacher,” said Meghna Yadav, deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara).

The DCP said that while the motive revealed by the boy seemed “improbable”, this was all he had revealed to the investigators until Sunday evening.

The police officer said the evidence at the murder spot did not suggest that the girl had been sexually assaulted, but said she is waiting for the autopsy report to confirm the same.A class 9 student, the girl was a businessman’s daughter and lived with her parents in Shahdara in east Delhi. The suspect is in class 12 and lives in the same neighbourhood. “Around two years ago, the boy and the girl took tuitions from the same teachers. It was there that the boy had used foul language during an argument with the girl. She had complained to the teacher which led to the boy being scolded,” said the DCP quoting the suspect. HTC