Group of minors stabs tailor to death in act of ‘revenge’
At least four-five minors allegedly stabbed to death a 50-year-old tailor and injured his colleague while they were having tea outside their workplace in Prem Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, under the Patel Nagar police station area, the law enforcement agency said on Thursday after apprehending three boys.
The minors, investigators said, sought revenge for their dad having been slapped.
The 16-year-old son of the man had apparently had called his minor friends from a neighbourhood in outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri to seek revenge after his dad got slapped by the man who was murdered, said Jasmeet Singh, deputy commissioner of police (central district). The DCP identified the murdered man as Deshraj and his injured colleague as Paramhans Pandey, 40.
Both lived in Prem Nagar, under the jurisdiction of Patel Nagar police station and worked as tailors at a factory in the same neighbourhood.
According to the DCP, two days before the murder, Deshraj
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had a quarrel with a local man over an unknown issue. “Deshraj had slapped that man, before others broke off the quarrel,” the DCP said.
When the man’s minor son got to know of the incident, he allegedly took his juvenile friends living in Sultanpuri in confidence and planned to seek revenge. “Around 3pm on Tuesday, Deshraj and Pandey had stepped out of their factory to have a cup of tea. The fourfive boys attacked them with knives in the street,” Singh said.
Deshraj was stabbed in his chest and thigh and when Pandey tried to intervene, he too was stabbed in his thigh.
The boys later fled the spot and the two injured men were rushed to a hospital where Deshraj succumbed.
The police initially were looking at a blind murder case, but they soon got to know of Deshraj’s quarrel. That helped the police focus on that angle even as CCTV footage provided further breakthroughs.
“We apprehended three suspects, all aged between 15 and 17, on Wednesday. We are looking out for the other boys involved in the murder,” the DCP said.