A 15-year-old boy from Punjab’s Patiala district brutally murdered his 17-year-old pal for his iPhone 11, hours after attending his party.
The sufferer and the accused, each college dropouts, met round three months in the past by means of a mutual pal.(Representational)
Police mentioned on Wednesday that the accused lured Navjot Singh of Alipur Ariyan village to a rail monitor in Rajpura city of the district round 10.30 pm on March 25 and stabbed him within the chest with a sharp-edged weapon to steal his iPhone 11. Navjot died on the spot.
The sufferer and the accused, each college dropouts, met round three months in the past by means of a mutual pal.
In a bid to cowl up the homicide, the accused sought assist from one other pal, a 14-year-old boy from the sufferer’s village, providing him ₹1,000 to assist eliminate Navjot’s physique. Collectively, they positioned the physique on the rail monitor to make it seem like an accident. Nonetheless, in an sudden twist, the confederate confessed the reality to Navjot’s household on March 30, and the police had been knowledgeable.
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Jasvinder Singh, the station home officer (SHO) of the Authorities Railway Police (GRP) at Rajpura, mentioned that the mutilated physique was recovered from the rail monitor in the course of the intervening evening of March 25 and 26.
At first, the GRP suspected an accident and despatched the physique to the mortuary of the Rajpura civil hospital, issuing an alert for identification. On March 30, Navjot’s household recognized the physique. The autopsy examination confirmed that Navjot had been stabbed earlier than he was run over by a practice.
“After the accomplice revealed everything, we arrested the 15-year-old accused on April 1 from Rajpura town and sent him to a juvenile home in Ludhiana,” Jasvinder Singh mentioned.
He mentioned simply hours earlier than committing the homicide, the accused was at Navjot’s home blowing candles on his birthday cake on the social gathering.
“The accused appears to be a drug addict,” the SHO mentioned, including, “We have recovered the iPhone 11 for which he killed his friend.” Police have recovered the weapon used within the crime.
Sufferer’s father Harjinder Singh, who’s a automotive mechanic, mentioned Navjot left dwelling saying that he was going with the accused to Rajpura, from the place they might go on a visit.