Overview
- Police found the 24-year-old medical student dead in his New Lal Bagh paying-guest room on Monday after friends who could not reach him entered and discovered his body.
- Autopsy placed the time of death between about 6:15 and 7:15 am and recorded more than ten deep stab wounds mainly to the neck and face, which officials called exceptionally violent.
- An FIR named the victim’s childhood friend, Mohit Verma, who had stayed overnight and was initially on the run before being arrested by investigators.
- Investigators said they used CCTV showing a bloodstained person fleeing, questioned other PG residents, conducted raids, recovered the alleged weapon and traced an alleged nearly ₹25,000 transfer from the victim’s phone to the accused.
- The killing has shaken the local student community and the victim’s family, who allege a money dispute; police say the probe will examine motive and all digital, forensic and witness evidence before filing formal charges.