LUCKNOW: A teenage boy allegedly killed his close friend in Meerut on Saturday after the victim allegedly “teased him with his girlfriend’s nude pictures and videos”, said the police sources.
The sources further added that the teenager accused was apprehended and he admitted to his crime. The accused allegedly confessed that the deceased, who was 16, had some nude pictures and videos of the his girlfriend. The victim had stolen those videos and pictures from his phone and was teasing him.
Nurturing the fear that the victim would leak his girlfriend’s pictures and videos on social media, the accused planned to kill his friend. According to Meerut Superintendent of Police, Ayush Vikram Singh, both the victim and the accused were neighbours studying in classes 11 and 12, respectively.
Preparing for engineering entrance exams simultaneously at a coaching centre, both used to go together to the coaching centre on a scooty, said the SP. The two allegedly left for the coaching class on Saturday but the victim did not return till late evening. When the victim’s parents asked the accused, he said he did not know his whereabouts.
Consequently, the victim’s family registered a missing person complaint pointing the needle of suspicion at the accused. During interrogation, the accused confessed to the cops that the victim had once seen private videos of his girlfriend on his phone. The victim then allegedly transferred them to his phone and started teasing him about the videos.
“The accused planned to kill the victim fearing that he would transfer the videos to someone else,” said the SP.
“On Saturday, the accused told the victim that he wanted to sell his phone. After selling the phone for Rs 8,000, they first ate at a KFC outlet and also bought some alcohol. On their way back, at around 5.30 pm, they stopped near a tubewell. The accused took out a hammer from his bag and struck the victim with it leading to his on-the-spot death and later dumped the body,” the SP added.
The SP claimed that the police had yet to recover videos from the deceased’s phone. However, the accused was taken into custody and he would be produced in juvenile justice court.