Delhi Police has arrested an 18-year-old youth while a juvenile has been apprehended for allegedly stabbing an auto mechanic to death in Northwest Delhi's Mahendra Park area. The victim has been identified as Dharmender Verma, a permanent resident of Dehradun was residing in RU Nagar, Mahendra Park.
Police claimed that the accused were inspired by gangsters’ movies and wanted to earn easy money by robbing people, as their families were under debt.
According to Usha Rangnani, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Northwest district, with the apprehension of an accused along with a juvenile, a team of Mahendra Park police station have solved a blind murder case within 24 hours of it being registered and recovered the weapon - a dagger used in committing the crime which was purchased online.
"During patrolling on Saturday around 9 pm, our team noticed a person with a stab injury in the abdomen near Red Light Jahangirpuri Metro Station. He was rushed to the hospital immediately where he died during the treatment," she said.
He told the police that two unknown persons intervened him near RU Nagar Gate, service road Jahangirpuri when he was returning home and they quarrelled as there was a slight collision with him, she added. As the quarrel got intense, one of them caught him, from behind and other one stabbed him in the upper abdomen and fled away from the spot, the DCP said.
"The case was registered and an investigation was taken up. Several teams were constituted and during the course of the investigation, several CCTV cameras of all possible entries and exits towards the spot of the incident were thoroughly analyzed," she said.
After analyzing numerous CCTV cameras, the incident was found captured in one of the CCTV footage wherein two persons were seen scuffling with the deceased and their entry and exit routes were established, police said.
Based on the inputs, technical surveillance and collected local intelligence, the team raided several locations as they were frequently changing their locations and hiding from police to evade their apprehension, police said.
After several attempts, the police apprehended two persons. The accused was identified as Deendayal and other another was later found out to be a juvenile, she said.
During interrogation, they confessed that they collided with the victim and during quarrel, victim slapped one of them and asked to walk properly, which annoyed them so much that they wanted to teach a lesson to him and therefore, stabbed the victim with a ‘dagger’ and thereafter they fled away from the spot, the officer said.
The weapon of offence- a dagger was recovered, police said.
"The accused revealed that they were very much influenced by the lifestyle of big gangsters as shown in gangster movies and web series. Their families were under debt and in order to earn easy money, they planned to rob people, for which they also ordered a dagger online and started roaming in the area to commit robberies," the DCP said.