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Two nabbed for murdering call centre staff
Deputy commissioner of police (east) Priyanka Kashyap said that a case of murder was registered and the investigating team scanned CCTV cameras installed near the spot.
Four days after a 21-year-old private call centre employee was stabbed to death outside a liquor shop at Samaspur village, near Mother Dairy in east Delhi, in an alleged case of ‘road rage’, the police on Thursday said that they have arrested two suspects – a 36-year-old man, Piyush, and his 20-year-old nephew, Deepanshu.
On Sunday, around 7.30 pm, the call centre employee, Nikhil Kumar Sharma, and his friend Sunny alias Ashu were walking to a liquor shop at Samaspur village when a scooter coming from behind brushed past Sunny’s leg. Sharma asked the rider to drive carefully. The rider started hurling abuses them, leading to an argument between them.
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While the two friends moved to the liquor shop, the scooter rider, now identified as Piyush, spoke with someone over his cellphone. Within five minutes a man in a red t-shirt, now identified as Deepanshu, arrived and entered into a scuffle with the two friends. Piyush stabbed Sharma in his chest and fled with his nephew, the police said.
Deputy commissioner of police (east) Priyanka Kashyap said that a case of murder was registered and the investigating team scanned CCTV cameras installed near the spot. Through video footage and door-to-door survey, the suspects were identified and arrested from their house in Ganesh Nagar, near Pandav Nagar in the early hours of Thursday.
