NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old boy looking for a meal at a wedding in East Delhi was shot dead on Saturday evening, allegedly by a CISF head constable attending the function, police said.
The teenager, from the New Modern Shahdara slum cluster, had scaled a boundary wall to enter the venue when the confrontation took place, police added.
The incident took place during a wedding procession near the community centre at the DDA market in Mansarovar Park. Police were alerted by a passerby who saw the commotion and the injured boy.
A team from Shahdara district police reached the spot and learned he had been taken to Hedgewar Hospital, where he was declared dead.
DCP (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said the accused, a CISF constable posted in Kanpur, was traced within hours and a pistol suspected to be the murder weapon recovered.
“He has been apprehended and is being questioned,” he said. The body has been sent for post-mortem and further procedures are underway, police said.