New Delhi:
A teenaged IIT aspirant was today detained for allegedly murdering a retired teacher in south
Delhi to avenge his humiliation as the elderly man made his parents pay Rs three lakh after he stole jewellery and credit cards from his house, police said.
The 17-year-old student hailing from Shingroli in Madhya Pradesh allegedly planned to kill D K Joshi in March, in whose flat he used to live as a tenant at that time, as his parents were made to pay the amount after he stole some of his valuables, they said.
The planning was so elaborate that the teenager took extra care not to be identified by anyone by wearing a wig used by women and made his friend wait for him on his motorcycle a little away from Joshi's residence in south Delhi's posh Vasant Kunj locality, police said.
"We detained the boy from his uncle's residence in Haryana's Gurgaon early this morning. He is from a well-to-do family. His father is a businessman while his sister is pursuing second year MBBS," DCP (South) H G S Dhaliwal told reporters here.
The English teacher was found dead with a head injury caused by a blunt object and stab wounds inflicted by scissors on his neck on Saturday. The incident came to light when his
son asked his cousin to visit his father as he was not attending his calls from the US.
The cracking of the case came after a probe by five special police teams into several angles, which included that two students who were Joshi's tenants left his place in March after a theft in his house. The students were staying there from November last year.
"We worked on this lead and this led to the detention of the teenager who felt he was humiliated. Joshi, who had not pressed for criminal charges against the teenager had later
demanded another Rs 50,000. The boy was angry at this and wanted to get rid of Joshi," Dhaliwal said.
According to Dhaliwal, the boy came to Delhi last Thursday from his hometown allegedly with a khukri, a long bended knife, which he had purchased two years ago in Nepal.
The next day, he met his old school friend and visited a beauty parlour, run by one of his female friends in Kalkaji, from where he took a wig telling her that he wanted it for a play in which he was acting.
"He told his school friend that he could arrange a job for him and went to his house to take his motorcycle. He also arranged some interviews for his friend. The teenager then took him to Vasant Kunj on the pretext of collecting some money," Dhaliwal said.
Joshi, who had gone out to purchase some household articles returned, found the boy outside his flat and asked him why he was there. The teenager pushed his way inside the house and allegedly attacked him with the knife.