NY stabbings rock Capital, leave 3 dead

BACK-TO-BACK STABBINGS

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

The New Year evening was streaked with blood with three almost back-to-back stabbings leaving an equal number of people dead in Delhi.

Bihari Lal, 50, was allegedly stabbed in an attack by a group of juveniles when he asked them to stop shouting and playing loud music in northwest Delhi's Lal Bagh area.

A tailor by profession, Bihari Lal had just returned home Thursday evening from his job in Shastri Nagar, when he was faced with a raucous mob of revellers, whom he chastised for making noise.

“This led to a heated exchange, during which one of the juveniles stabbed Lal” a police officer said, adding that one of the boys kicked the victim several times during the fight. Bihari Lal was rushed to Babu Jagjivan Ram Memorial Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

Police apprehended a juvenile in connection with the killing and seized the weapon of the crime. A hunt for the rest involved in the fight is on.

An FIR was registered at the Adarsh Nagar Police Station, and investigators are examining eyewitness accounts and CCTV footage from the area.