A candlelight vigil for NRI student Anmol Sarna, who was killed at a party on Friday
A 21-year-old NRI who was killed at a party in Delhi on Friday, and friends who were with him, had consumed a large quantity of drugs bought from college students, the police said today.
The police said Anmol Sarna and two of his friends drove to Noida on the outskirts of Delhi to buy drugs and consumed them in the Kalkaji house of a third friend, a student of Delhi University's premier Hindu college. His parents were sleeping in the next room when the four friends took the drugs.
"Anmol was extremely high on drugs and broke the LCD TV, which is when his friend's parents asked all of them to leave," said Joint Commissioner of Police Vivek Gogia. Anmol later allegedly created a ruckus outside the apartment, turned violent and hit himself on the gate.
At the commotion, the guards came and the boys ran away, except Anmol who reportedly got into a scuffle with the two men. The police say the guards beat Anmol with their batons. He later died in hospital.
The two guards have been arrested for the murder, but Anmol's friends, all in their twenties, have been booked for consuming drugs.
Anmol had moved to Delhi to his grandmother's house in December. He had finished high school in the US and was to join a hospitality institute in California next month.
On Friday night, he was spotted bleeding on the road by a passerby who phoned the police for help.
His parents have blamed his friends. "It is a cold-blooded murder," said Anmol's mother, Shobha. The family had moved back to India after 27 years in the US.