A second year student from Sri Aurobindo College of Delhi University is among the two accused who have been nabbed by the team of Delhi Police in connection with the brutal murder of a 32-year-old e-rickshaw driver after he raised objections to the two students urinating on the roadside in North-West Delhi's GTB Nagar on Saturday.
Rajesh Khurana, Joint Commissioner of Police (Northern Range) said, "One of the accused, Shekhar, a native of Muzaffarnagar has been arrested immedietly after the juvenile, a 17-year-old, was apprehended. Apart from these two, five students who were part of the group that assaulted and murdered Ravindra Kumar, have been identified. Raids are being carried out to nab them", the Joint CP added.
"On being asked by Kumar, not to urinate on the roadside, Shekhar along with the juvenile friend had entered into a verbal spat with him. They took it personally and immediately gathered a mob of at least 25 students and lynched Kumar, metres away from his house," said the senior police officer.
During investigation the accused said that instead of them it was Kumar who was urinating by the roadside.
Investigators on late Tuesday night sent one of the teams to Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh to nab the accused. "Shekhar is a second year BA student student from Sri Aurobindo College. He lives in the Sant Nagar area of Burari while the juvenile, a 17-year-old is a student from School of Open learning (SOl) and he resides in the Vijay Nagar area.
On Saturday afternoon, Shekhar went to meet the juvenile at North Campus. Based on the CCTV footage accessed from the liquor shop near the GTB Metro Station, the police teams were able to establish the identity of the accused.
In light of the murder, the Crime Branch on Tuesday was also roped in to assist a probe into the killing.
Following the brutal killing of the e-rickshaw driver, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had condemned the act and directed the Delhi Police to bring the culprits to book. The Prime Minister has also sanctioned an ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh from the PM's National Relief Fund to the family of Kumar.
Union Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu had visited the family of the deceased and handed over a cheque of Rs 50,000 and offered a job to the aggrieved family. He also asked the Delhi Police Commissioner to expedite the probe to get the accused persons behind the bars.