Delhi Murder Was Pre-Meditated, Not A ‘Crime Of Passion’

The brutal killing of a 16-year old girl in Delhi on Sunday was planned over a period of three days, the police have learnt.

The accused Sahil said that the killing was a result of a verbal spat between them, which broke out last Thursday.

This has led the police to believe that the murder was pre-meditated and not a 'crime of passion' as was suspected earlier. Sahil had been stalking the girl since Saturday. He waited in the lane where one of the girl's friends lived and eventually approached her as she emerged from a public toilet. He then stabbed her multiple times with a knife and then pounded her body with a stone slab even as the onlookers did not intervene.

The police have learnt that the knife was purchased by him from Haridwar. It was however not known immediately as to why he had purchased the knife.

Special Commisioner of Police, Deependra Pathak told the media that, Sahil had said that there was a confrontation between the two on Thursday where the victim is said to have insulted Sahil. "This was pre-meditated and we are building a water-tight case to ensure that he is given the harshest of punishment," he also added.

Sahil said that after the murder, he went to the Rithala Metro Station, where he dumped the knife, following which he travelled to his aunt's home in Uttar Pradesh. He was eventually arrested from UP's Bulandshahr.

The police are yet to recover the knife, although they have seized his phone and the bloodstained clothes he had worn at the time of the murder. The police are also establishing the chats between the accused and the victim.

The police have learnt that the two were allegedly in a relationship for two years. Only recently they had stopped seeing each other. The parents of the girl have however denied any information of the two being in a relationship.