Mistaking him for auto driver, 25-year-old man stabs guard
NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old man, who the police said is suffering from insomnia and depression, allegedly stabbed a 65-year-old security guard to death in the early hours of Wednesday. The police said the accused, Benzi Singh from Manipur, admitted to murdering the security guard as he was angry with the autorickshaw drivers in his area after he had a fight with one last week.
The police said Singh mistook the security guard for a driver as the latter was sleeping inside an autorickshaw.
Singh told the police that he was preparing for the civil services examination and had developed a suicidal tendency.
Police said they were informed of the incident around 3am on Wednesday.
The guard, Ram Bahadur Khatri, who manned the B/6 block in south Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave, was stabbed in the neck allegedly by Singh.
Khatri’s family told the police after the injury, he ran back to his house, about half a kilometre, and collapsed at the entrance.
Deputy commissioner of police (south), Vijay Kumar said, “Few weeks ago, Singh had an altercation with a driver over autorickshaw fare. Since then, he harboured a grudge against them and wanted revenge. On Wednesday, around 2.30am, he saw Khatri sleeping in the auto rickshaw and mistook him as one of the auto drivers from the neighbourhood. He allegedly took out a paper cutter and stabbed the guard to death.”