20-year-old held for killing minor boy over digital wrist watch

  • | Saturday | 18th August, 2018

We have not given a clean chit to the two minor boys named as accused in the FIR. Arbaaz had snatched away the watch when Sunny was showing it to his friends – the two minor boys named in FIR – and fled with another boy on a scooter. They were witness to the quarrel between Sunny and Arbaaz over the watch downstairs,” said Krishna. The accused, Arbaaz, told police that he killed the boy, Sunny, following a quarrel over a digital wrist watch.Arbaaz, along two minor boys, had been booked for Sunny’s murder based on a complaint lodged by the latter’s family. GHAZIABAD: A 20-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly strangling to death a Class VI boy in Khoda on August 12.

GHAZIABAD: A 20-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly strangling to death a Class VI boy in Khoda on August 12. The accused, Arbaaz, told police that he killed the boy, Sunny, following a quarrel over a digital wrist watch.Arbaaz, along two minor boys, had been booked for Sunny’s murder based on a complaint lodged by the latter’s family. However, investigations so far have not revealed any role played by the minor boys in the murder.The two minor boys live in a lane behind a building in Azad Vihar area of Khoda, in which Sunny lived with his family in a first-floor single-room rented accommodation.Arbaaz lived in a building nearby with his maternal grandparents, mother and two siblings, after the demise of his father.Sunny was found dead on August 12, hanging with a stole tied tightly around his neck from the door handle of their rented accommodation.Police said Arbaaz, who is unemployed, has told police that he had gone to Sunny’s house to return his watch when the quarrel broke out. Arbaaz had snatched away the watch when Sunny was showing it to his friends – the two minor boys named in FIR – and fled with another boy on a scooter. He said he had taken the watch from the hands of one of the boys and was not liable to return it to Sunny.Sunny allegedly threw the watch back at Arbaaz, when he went to return it after one hour, and further abused him verbally. “Arbaaz picked up a stole lying on a cot inside the room. He made a loop with one end of the stole and put it around Sunny’s neck. He wrung the stole several times by pulling it from the other end, thereby rolling Sunny across the floor repeatedly. Sunny was strangulated in the process. Arbaaz panicked when Sunny died. He tied the other end of the stole to the door handle and fled from the house,” said SSP Vaibhav Krishna.Arbaaz told police during interrogation that he did not intend to kill Sunny. “Though the accused has claimed not to have intended to kill Sunny, his statement cannot be taken at face value. Our investigations have revealed that he intended to kill Sunny. We have not given a clean chit to the two minor boys named as accused in the FIR. They were witness to the quarrel between Sunny and Arbaaz over the watch downstairs,” said Krishna.

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