A day after a 23-year-old hotel management graduate was found dead in a car outside the Sultanpur Metro station in South Delhi, the Delhi Police arrested two persons in connection with the case. In a statement, police said the reason behind the murder was “personal enmity”.
However, sources said the victim and one of his friends were close to the same girl, an angle that police are still looking at. Police are also on the lookout for another person who may be involved in the crime.
“The accused have been identified as Satish (23), a resident of Sangam Vihar, and Virender (27), a resident of Ghitorni. Satish is a DTC bus driver and has cases of robbery and Arms Act registered against him. Virender is a milkman, is married and has a daughter. They have been arrested for murder under Section 302 (murder) of IPC. We are probing all possible angles” Deputy Commissioner of Police B S Jaiswal said.
On Thursday, the body of Daksh, a resident of Sarita Vihar in South East Delhi, was found with several injury marks in a Maruti Ritz outside the Sulatnpur Metro station. Police said the injury marks had been caused by repeated stabbing.
“We first located Daksh’s friend Mukesh Mehra who helped us identify the victim. With the help of call detail records, the two accused were arrested. During questioning, the accused revealed that they had an old enmity with Daksh, because of which they killed him. They hit Daksh on the head with a rod repeatedly and dumped him in the car before fleeing,” Jaiswal said.
Speaking to Newsline, Daksh’s mother said “He had left the house for Le Meridien, saying he was going to a party with his friend Mukesh. While Mukesh came back, we didn’t hear about Daksh till the next morning when the police informed us about his body.”
She said Daksh, who had completed hotel management from Amity University this year, would often go out at night with his friend. “He would go out for work-related conferences and said something about having his own set-up,” she said. A close friend of Daksh said that he was trying to open his own event management firm. She added that she tried calling Daksh at 9 am on Thursday morning, but his phone was switched off. Sources said Daksh had last contacted a friend on Thursday at 1.30 am. Police said they were investigating all possible angles.
Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies.
With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health.
His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award.
Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time.
Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More
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