Indian Express: To make a killing, Delhi teenagers take to crime

The Indian Express

Return to Story Page
To print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu

To make a killing, Delhi teenagers take to crime

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI, FEB 21:

The body of Ravi Shankar, 18, a resident of Vishnu Garden, was fished out from the Yamuna on February 13. He had been battered to death, and had been missing from his home since Feb 5.

Bodhi Raj Malhotra, 70, a resident of Mansarovar Garden in Kirti Nagar, was bludgeoned to death on February 10.

Till Wednesday, the police had no clue about the culprits involved in at least 13 cases of burglary reported from various parts of West Delhi over the past six months. They caught the burglars finally, thanks to an alert resident of Tagore Garden.

The Delhi police have found a rather disturbing connection to all these incidents. Teenagers, mostly school dropouts, have been found to be involved in each of these cases. Their motives: Love triangles, a fast life and earning a lot of money quickly.

CASE 1: The Tilak Nagar Police happened to visit the mortuary in Safdarjung Hospital. They were looking for Ravi Shankar, reported missing since Feb 5, at various place.They foundhim, decomposed, naked and battered to death with a stone. Ravi Shankar's body had been fished out from the Yamuna by the Sarita Vihar Police on February 13 and preserved for identification.DCP Sahay says investigations earlier revealed that Ravi Shankar was visiting a girl in his neighbourhood. The girl had a boyfriend Harmeet, 18, who took offence to Ravi Shankar's visits. And Harmeet and his friend Hemant, 17, had returned home very late on Feb 5.

When the police questioned Hemant after the body was found, he reportedly confessed to the crime. Harmeet, however, is absconding. Both Hemant and Harmeet are school dropouts.

CASE 2: The police suspected that Bodhi Raj Malhotra, 70, had been murdered because it was common knowledge in Mansarovar Garden that he had recently sold a portion of his property for Rs 1.5 crore. On Wednesday, some policemen rushed to the Widow Colony area of Punjabi Bagh after they came to know that two teenagers were being thrashed by the residents. The teenagers, later identifiedas Angad Kumar Sharma, 18, and Mali Ram, 19, had threatened to implicate a woman, living in the colony, in the murder of Bodhiraj Malhotra. Angad also claimed he had killed Malhohtra at the woman's behest.``It later turned turned out that Anagad had a illicit relationship with the 32-year-old woman and had taken Rs 15,000 from her to start a business.''

Net Express

------------------------------------------------------------

This story was printed from Net Express located at http://www.expressindia.com. Net Express provides a portal to India, with news from The Indian Express and The Financial Express along with sites on travel and tourism, the entertainment industry, the power sector, the environment and much more.

------------------------------------------------------------