NEW DELHI: It was a scene straight out of a Bollywood crime thriller. Last Sunday, a man profusely bleeding ran into the Adarsh Nagar police station before collapsing in front of the duty officer’s room. The shocked staff informed their seniors and the SHO immediately ordered that the injured man be driven in his official vehicle to the hospital, where he was pronounced brought dead.
In the last one week alone, the city has seen many murders. As per police data, Delhi records four murders every three days. In fact, till April 30 this year, the city has reported 158 cases.
From an accused who confessed to have killed his business partner as well as five members of his family, to a man who killed his four-year-old daughter, to a man who killed his mother—murders ruled the city the past week.
If this was not enough, the city also reported cases of a woman who killed her husband with help from her paramour and three juveniles who beat their 20-year-old friend to death over a fight over a bike ride. In the Adarsh Nagar police station case that took place at 2.20 pm on Sunday, cops managed to crack the murder and arrested the accused. The killing was so gory that it took more than three hours
to clean the floor of the police station and the vehicle in which the deceased was taken to the hospital.
The deceased, indentified as Rakesh, ran for almost 500 metres from Azadpur flyover to the police station before he collapsed.
In the other case, an accused—Bunty—was picked up by the cops in connection with the murder of his business partner—Munnawar Hassan, a BSP leader.
During interrogation, Bunty revealed that he had not only killed Hassan but also eliminated his wife, two sons, and two daughters. The police recovered highly decomposed bodies of the victims from Meerut and Burari areas on Tuesday. Hassan who had fought local elections had been convicted by a local court for rape in January this year.
The week also threw up quite a few murder cases related to discontent within the family. A man allegedly gave some pills to his minor daughters—eight-year-old Muskan and four-year-old Rukhsana. He asked them to take them if their mother beat them as the medicines would relieve them of their pain. Rukhsana died after consuming the pills but Muskan managed to survive. In Palam area, a 49-year-old man killed his mother after a verbal altercation. He committed the act in front of his wife and children.
Last Tuesday, a woman was arrested for murdering her husband. Allegedly the woman’s paramour helped her hatch the plan. The deceased was working in AIIMS. The accused fed him sleeping pills mixed in food before strangulating him. The police also arrested three juveniles for allegedly murdering their friend over a bike ride. According to the police, three accused beat a 20-year-old to death with wooden sticks in outer Delhi area last Sunday.