NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times, allegedly by a 20-year-old man, near the Kirbi Place bus stop in Delhi Cantonment on Sunday evening.
The incident, which took place in full public view, left both the victim and the accused injured, as the man later attacked himself after stabbing the girl, police said on Monday. .
According to a senior police officer, the attack took place around 9:30 pm. The accused, identified as Amit, a resident of the Delhi Cantonment area, allegedly stabbed the girl in the neck and left side of her abdomen.
A case under Section 109(1) (attempt to murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) has been registered at Delhi Cantonment police station, and further investigation is underway.
Police said that during the inquiry, it was revealed the two had known each other for the past year and had worked in adjacent shops in Delhi Cantt’s Sadar Bazar area. However, the girl and her brother left that job around six months ago.
“We received a call around 10 pm about the incident and were asked to rush to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, where my sister was admitted. When we arrived, we found both of them hospitalised,” the girl’s younger brother said.
He added that his sister had gone to the market on Sunday to buy something for herself ahead of her birthday, which falls on Tuesday. “Our elder sister, who lives in our native village in UP, recently gave birth. We were planning to visit her and the baby on April 12,” he further said.
He also mentioned that after quitting her previous job, his sister had recently started working again and joined a new job about 10 to 15 days ago.
Their mother, a 45-year-old woman who works as a househelp in capital, said she moved to the city five years ago after separating from her husband, hoping to provide her children with a better life. “I never imagined something like this would happen to my daughter,” she said after the incident.
The family also mentioned that the girl had been filling out job applications to support the family financially. A purported 45-second video of the incident is rapildly circulating on social media. In the clip, the accused is seen lying on the footpath with the bloodied girl nearby. Bystanders are seen gathering at the scene.
Another video reportedly shows the accused meeting the girl earlier that day and attempting to grab her hand, which she resisted. Both the victim and the accused are currently undergoing treatment at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in west Delhi.