Juvenile arrested for killing former teacher
A juvenile has been arrested by the south Delhi police for allegedly killing 68-year-old retired government teacher D.K Joshi, whose body was found in his house on December 19 morning.
The police said that the accused, who had lived in the house of Joshi as a paying guest along with a schoolmate, held a grudge against Joshi for the “humiliation and monetary loss” his family had to undergo. The accused had stolen Joshi’s credit card and jewellery, which was compensated with payment of `3 lakhs by his family.
The police said the accused was arrested from his maternal uncle’s house in Gurgaon early Tuesday.
The accused, who had reportedly dropped a year to prepare for engineering entrance tests, had arrived in Delhi from his native place in Madhya Pradesh on December 16. He was carrying the khukhri that he had bought two years ago. The boy met his old roommate and then went to meet his girlfriend, who worked in a beauty parlour in Kalkaji, and a picked up a lady’s wig from there. He then reached Vasant Kunj on his friend’s motorcycle on the pretext that he had to recover some money from a person. Once in Vasant Kunj, he asked his friend to wait for him and headed straight to Joshi’s house in C-Block, Vasant Kunj.
Wearing the lady’s wig to avoid identification, the accused had barely knocked on the door when Joshi returned home. Even as he asked why was he there, the accused pushed him inside and bolted the door. He then struck with the khukhri on his head and then stabbed him with a scissors in his neck. As Joshi collapsed, he took away a laptop, three wine bottles (which Joshi kept for his friends) and a mobile phone.
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