Duo held for stabbing a 17-year-old to death in Zirakpur

The accused, Sunny and Ritik, both residents of Saketri, Sector 5, Panchkula, are alleged to have murdered Krishna Mehra, 17, of their locality in Panchkula.

Police booked the accused for murder after Santosh Kumari, the victim’s mother, lodged a complaint.

The complainant told the police that the accused were former friends of her son but had had an argument with Krishna a few days before the incident following which she tried to resolve the issue but to no avail.

She added that she decided to send her son to her brother’s house in Zirakpur after he told her that the youths were trying to harm him.

While she and her husband were accompanying her son to Patiala Chowk and waiting for a bus, the youths reached her son there around 6 p.m. and attacked him with knives.

The accused fled while bleeding, following which Mehra’s parents along with onlookers took the victim to the Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32, where he succumbed to his injuries.

The Zirakpur police have booked the accused for murder.