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Delhi Sees Spate of Killings as Police Arrest Multiple Suspects, Including Juveniles

CCTV, payment traces, forensic work drive rapid identifications across separate cases.

Overview

  • In Connaught Place, 36-year-old Shivam Gupta died on January 19 after a January 2 assault in which delivery agents allegedly beat him with helmets, with two suspects now arrested as his family urges a probe into a friend's role.
  • In Pandav Nagar, delivery executive Arun Raj, 22, was fatally stabbed and three juveniles were apprehended, with police saying the attack followed an alleged assault by the victim earlier that day.
  • In Govindpuri, police arrested Bhavishya Kumar and detained three others, including a minor, after Himanshu Kumar Chauhan was killed during a party dispute over money to buy chicken, with forensic evidence collected and a post-mortem pending.
  • In Tilak Nagar, a 20-year-old named Shivam was stabbed to death in a dispute linked to a relationship; two adults were arrested, a juvenile was apprehended, and a knife suspected to be the weapon was recovered using CCTV-led tracking.
  • In north Delhi’s Railway Colony, technician Sandeep Kumar Malviya was found murdered and a 17-year-old was apprehended after leads from CCTV and a Rs 1 UPI test transaction, with police citing the minor’s account of a confrontation and subsequent theft.