New Delhi: An argument over a pair of shoes allegedly escalated into a fatal stabbing outside a school in west Delhi ’s Mohan Garden Wednesday, leaving a Class XII student dead. Police have apprehended five people, including three minors, in connection with the incident.
The victim’s father, an ex-serviceman, had arrived to pick up his son around 6.30 pm when school authorities informed him about the incident.
A Class XII student had an argument with the deceased’s friend over his shoes and allegedly threatened him, according to the preliminary investigation. Police said the friend was not wearing shoes that matched the school’s prescribed uniform, about which the other student had reportedly complained to a teacher. Police said three of the five people apprehended were students of the same school.
Crime and forensic teams inspected the spot, and police recovered a knife believed to have been used in the attack near the school gate. An FIR has been registered at Mohan Garden police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to murder and voluntarily causing hurt. Further investigation is underway.
During the assault, one of the attackers allegedly stabbed the victim, causing fatal injuries. Following a post-mortem at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, the family took the body to their native village, Sikandarpur, in Haryana for the last rites.
As students were leaving the school, the deceased and his friend were allegedly confronted by associates of the student involved in the earlier argument.