27-year-old held for murder of co-worker amid a drunken quarrel in Gandhi Nagar

New Delhi: A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing an associate to death with a pair of scissors during a drunken quarrel inside a garment factory in Shahdara’s Gandhi Nagar area last week. The deceased was identified as Krishan Kumar.

According to the police, information regarding a man being admitted with stab injuries was received from a hospital last Friday. Kumar, unable to disclose the circumstances of the incident or identify the assailant, left the hospital without informing the medical staff and declined to pursue legal action. The next day, cops received information from another hospital that he had succumbed to his injuries.

Police traced Kumar’s workplace to a garment factory in Raghuwarpura II in Gandhi Nagar. Questioning of the factory owner and workers revealed that a quarrel had broken out amongst workers on Thursday night after they had consumed liquor in the factory.

During this altercation, one of the workers, identified as Arwaz, had allegedly attacked a worker, identified as Tiger, before stabbing Kumar with a pair of scissors and fleeing from the spot.

A case was registered under section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at the Gandhi Nagar police station.

“CCTV cameras were examined and suspected persons were identified,” said DCP (Shahdara) Rajendra Prasad Meena.

Arwaz, a resident of Sangam Vihar, was nabbed from southwest Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. He confessed to his involvement in the crime, and police seized the pair of scissors used in the crime from his possession.

Police also found that he was previously involved in a case of attempted murder registered at the Sangam Vihar police station as a minor boy.