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Delhi street murder: No regrets, says accused man after stabbing teenage girl more than 20 times

Sahil, 20, was arrested from Bulandshahr in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday (29) and was sent to police custody.

Sahil, the accused in the murder case of a minor girl who stabbed to death in New Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area, near Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday, May 29, 2023. (ANI Photo)

By: Shubham Ghosh

A 20-year-old man, who has been arrested on charges of murdering a teenage girl on a busy bylane in Shahbad Dairy area of north Delhi on Sunday (28) evening, has allegedly confessed to committing the brutal crime in a fit of rage and that he had no regrets. The 16-year-old girl succumbed to injuries after she was stabbed more than 20 times and hit with a stone slab and the crime was witnessed by many passersby who did not step in.

The crime was caught by a nearby CCTV camera installed for security purposes.

Camera catches man repeatedly stabbing teenage girl on crowded Delhi bylane; no one stops killer

The accused, Sahil, was arrested from Bulandshahr in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday (29) and was sent to police custody. According to the police, the man said during his overnight interrogation that he had no regrets over his gruesome act, NDTV reported. Shahil is an air-conditioner repair worker.

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According to him, the victim wanted to end her relationship with him and that she was involved with another male, her former boyfriend. Sahil also claimed that her former boyfriend is a hooligan who he feared.

Sahil allegedly dated the girl for three years but of late, she ended the relationship and according to the police, the former was angry as the girl had been allegedly ignoring him. The two also had a fight the day before the murder.

On Sunday evening, Sahil, who reportedly was drunk then, attacked her with a knife as she was going to a birthday party.

The girl’s body lay in a pool of blood for nearly half an hour before someone informed the police. They said her body had 34 injury marks and her skull was ruptured. The accused, who had left the scene, had discarded the murder weapon and his phone and took a bus to Bulandshahr to take shelter at his aunt’s house.

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