Teacher Killers Nabbed in 12 hrs

Teacher's killers nabbed in 12 hrs

One Of Them 18 Yrs Old, Other A Month Short Of Turning Adult

It took just 12 hours after the stabbing of a school teacher to death in Nangloi for police to track the two students accused of the crime. On Tuesday, Delhi Police arrested one of them and detained the other, a minor, for the murder in west Delhi. Both are Class XII students. One is 18 years and seven months old, while the second student is a month short of turning 18.

Mukesh Kumar, teacher at Government Boys' Senior Secondary School, Sultanpuri Road, was attacked by the duo on Monday evening while he was examining some answer sheets. The two scaled the school boundary wall, entered the classroom and stabbed Kumar three times.

“We have recovered the weapon of offence, that is, the knife, and blood-stained clothes,“ said Depender Pathak, joint commissioner (Southwest). “We will ensure that the accused get the strictest punishment under the law.“

The investigators said that the boys had bought the knife in Nangloi while planning their plan. After the crime, they were idling away their time around Nithari Lake and Begampur in the vicinity when the cops reached them.

The youngster who was arrested was produced before a magistrate before police took him into custody for two days. The juvenile has been sent to a reformation home.The cops have not revealed the identity of the older boy.

When the police control room received a call on September 26 about the stabbing of a teacher at the school, a sub-inspector and his team reached the spot and found blood scattered near the main gate and inside Room 108. The vice-principal had taken the injured Kumar to Balaji Action Hospital in Paschim Vihar, where he died during the course of emergency medical treatment.

After registering an FIR at Nangloi police station, according to Pathak, teams led by ACP Anand Sagar and SHO (Nangloi) Sunil Kumar conducted raids through Monday night, and were able to apprehend the youngsters early on Tuesday morning from near their house.

The vice-principal said that the two students were unruly in their ways and Kumar often pulled them up.They frequently absented themselves from classes. One of them had even been rusticated from school on account of his poor attendance.

The steps taken by Kumar had angered the boys and they plotted to teach their teacher a lesson.

(TOI)