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Two DU students nabbed for lynching e-rick driver

One is an Aurobindo College student while the other is a juvenile, say police

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Four days after a 32-year-old e-rickshaw driver was beaten to death by 15-20 men in full public view, the police finally made the first arrests in the case on Wednesday. The development was reported just a few hours after the investigation was handed over to the Delhi Police's Crime Branch.

Cops in the north-west district arrested Shekhar Kapasia, 19, a second-year student of Delhi University's Aurobindo College, and also apprehended a juvenile, a DU student as well, DCP (north-west) Milind Dumbere said.

The e-rickshaw driver, Ravinder, had objected to two people urinating near the GTB Metro station on Saturday. The case was handed over to the Crime Branch after the Delhi Police failed to make any arrests even three days after the horrific incident. Five more suspects have been identified in the case, the police said.

The rigorous probe into the case unfolded over three days, during which more than 100 suspects were questioned and the entire area of Mukherjee Nagar and Kingsway Camp, inhabited by college students, was thoroughly scanned by more than a dozen teams led by a number of ACPs in the district.

DCP Dumbere said: "Multiple police teams, under the supervision of ACPs of Model Town, Ashok Vihar, Jahangir Puri, and Operations in northwest district, including a number of inspectors and SHOs from almost all the police stations of the district, worked relentlessly and no stone was left unturned. We have more possible leads and more arrests will soon be made."

"After the matter flared up, Kapasia, a resident of Muzzafarnagar in Uttar Pradesh (UP), fled to his hometown. His interrogation revealed that a verbal altercation with Ravinder led to the violent incident. He said one of the miscreants had tied stones in a towel (gamchha) and had hit Ravinder with it. The victim sustained grievous injuries and when taken to hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival," the DCP further said.

Analysis

Violent behaviour among youngsters, especially educated youths, is a matter of grave concern
The accused in the harrowing case are suspected to be Delhi University students, which raises a big question about the values and ethics that our youths are imbibing

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