Just over a year after the Shradhha Walkar murder in Mehrauli, Delhi has been shocked by the murder of a 16-year-old girl in the city’s Shahbad Dairy area near Rohini.
Police said the victim was a resident of the JJ Colony in Shahbad. She had been walking down the street to visit a friend when she was accosted by the accused and attacked. Police said the couple had had a quarrel on Saturday and the murder is said to be the after-effect of the quarrel.
The victim had been stabbed and bludgeoned dead by her boyfriend, who has since been arrested from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh. The murder was caught on CCTV in the densely populated area and bystanders didn’t stop the murder. Reports said she was stabbed several times and the knife got stuck in her abdomen but the man wrenched it out and again stabbed her. The CCTV clip shows the accused slamming a cement slab on the prone girl some five times, picking the slab up each time and throwing it on he over and over again. He then walks away and returns to kick the remains of the now dead minor.
While the murder could have been avoided if anyone passing by had stopped the accused or called the police, the heartlessness of the bystanders brings to mind the December 2016 gangrape when the bus in which the victim was assaulted was driving around South West Delhi. Further, the incidents of couples quarrels’ ending up in murder was also seen in the Shraddha Walkar murder when her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawalla killed her and disposed of her parts over time while the body was kept in a large refrigerator.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal condemned the murder but was quick to point out that law and order was not in his government’s domain and called on Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena to act on ensuring better law and order.
Former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra, who is now in the BJP, called it a shameful incident. He said how many more such murders will be seen. Mishra said the girl was a Hindu and the accused was a Muslim and drew a parallel with the controversial film The Kerala Story and wondered how many such Kerala Stories will happen in each lane of the city. Mishra blamed the judiciary for not hanging Aaftab Poonawalla soon enough. The lack of punishment in the Walkar murder has emboldened criminals, Mishra said.
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