Two youths allegedly stabbed to death a friend and later crushed his head with stones on the outskirts of Roorkee town after snatching his cellphone to repay a Rs 11,000 loan from a shopkeeper. According to the police, Vaibhav and Shubham, both aged 20, took Abhishek, 18, to a secluded place on the outskirts of the town Wednesday and stabbed him with a large sewing needle. The accused have been arrested and have confessed to their crime, Hardwar police chief Sadanand Date said. As the victim did not return home till late in the evening, his family members lodged a missing person complaint with the police. Acting on information that Abhishek was last seen with Vaibhav and Shubham, the police detained the accused who, during interrogation, confessed to abducting and killing their friend. “On the basis of the disclosure made by them, we recovered the body, besides the weapons used in this crime,” a police official said. The accused had taken a loan of Rs 11,000 from a shopkeeper and in order to repay it, they gave the cellphone snatched from the victim to the same shopkeeper.
