On Wednesday, a 15 year old boy from the State was purportedly trodden to death by two juveniles in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar.
As per police report, Booking the minors in a murder case, the accused beat to death the boy, Rajat Krishnan Menon, whose family hails from Palakkad, to avenge a prank.
Rajat’s friends, who were with him at the time of the incident, however, told their families that the juveniles accused them of shoplifting from their kiosk and demanded the missing objects.
Around 5 p.m., Rajat and his two friends were waylaid by the accused near the kiosk in the Mayur Vihar Phase –III market, said the father of one of the three boys.
He said, “They were returning on Rajat’s two-wheeler after playing snooker. While they were crossing the road where the kiosk stands, two juveniles with whom he had got into a minor scuffle some days back, caught hold of the group and an argument ensued,”