Delhi: 24-Year-Old Woman Stabbed to Death, Accused Held

A case of murder has been registered after a 24-year-old woman was stabbed in Delhi's West Sagarpur on Thursday, 21 April.

(Photo: CCTV footage accessed by The Quint)

A man accused for the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Delhi's West Sagarpur was arrested by the Delhi police on Sunday, 24 April.

As seen in CCTV footage, the woman was chased and stabbed to death in front of her two kids on 21 April. She was subsequently rushed to Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) Hospital where she was declared to be brought dead.

The accused, identified as Bharat alias Bhairav alias Kake (29), a resident of Sagarpur, Delhi, claimed that he had an illicit relation with the said woman and when she started ignoring him, he killed her.

"Around 2 pm, a PCR Call was received at PS Sagarpur regarding stabbing of a woman named Aarti, in West Sagarpur. Immediately on receiving the information, the station house officer (SHO) Sagarpur reached the spot and found that the injured lady had already been taken to DDU hospital," the police said.

Speaking to reporters, a local shopkeeper said:

"I was working at my shop, when an uncle came saying that someone has been stabbed. I came outside the shop and a girl was lying on the road here. She had been accompanied by her two children. I don't know who the man was. When I picked up the woman, she was bleeding from her chest and her thigh."

The woman's husband had already identified the suspect and revealed his name to the police.

Based on his complaint the police registered a case against Bharat under section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code.

With the help of technical intelligence and local sources, the accused was nabbed and the knife which he used to commit the murder was also recovered.

Further investigations are in progress, the official added.