Overview

• A PCR call on July 1 led police to the partially decomposed body of a 14-year-old near the Delhi Jal Board treatment plant at Haiderpur.
• Technical surveillance enabled the arrest of adults Krishna Mehto and Ashmit Singh and four juvenile suspects in connection with the abduction and killing.
• Investigators say Mehto suspected the victim of informing on his Diwali assault and orchestrated the June 29 abduction, gagging and stabbing him with seven accomplices.
• Authorities have filed charges under Sections 103(1) and 238(b) of the IPC, applying juvenile justice guidelines as they build their murder and evidence-tampering case.
• The case has renewed scrutiny of Delhi’s juvenile crime response and spurred demands for improved security measures along the Munak Canal.