When the young man refused to give them a matchbox so they could light their cigarettes, two other juveniles in the Timarpur neighborhood of north Delhi fatally stabbed him, according to police on Sunday.
The two teenage suspects have been taken into custody, according to the police.
The Timarpur police station received a PCR call about a stabbing incident on Saturday, according to the police.
“On reaching the spot, a police team found that there was a pool of blood inside of an autorickshaw and around it,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) M K Meena said, adding that the injured person was shifted to Hindu Rao Hospital by then.
On reaching the hospital, the team learnt that the youth was declared brought dead by the doctors, the DCP said.
The crime scene was inspected and the statement of an eyewitness was recorded, he added.
On checking the CCTV footage of the crime spot, the police zeroed in on the two juveniles and apprehended them on Sunday, Meena said.
“A knife used in the commission of the offence has been recovered,” he said.
When pressed, the pair admitted that one of them had demanded a matchbox from the victim so he could light cigarettes, but the victim had refused, starting a verbal altercation. The DCP claimed that as the fight got more heated, one of the young people attacked the victim with a knife and they both ran away.
He claimed that one of the young people who had been arrested had previously committed another horrible crime.
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