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Police have arrested three accused, including a minor, in the case of murder of Mukesh Jha (38) by stabbing him when he protested against the robbery of a mobile phone in Karol Bagh area late on Wednesday night. The two accused have been identified as Vishal Suri, resident of Kamla Nagar, and Shreyansh Rana, resident of Sabzi Mandi. The age of the minor is 16 years. Police have recovered the knife and the scooter used in the crime from their possession.
Late on Wednesday night at around 2:15 am, police received information that a young man was stabbed near Naiwala Chowk in Karol Bagh. As soon as the information was received, the police reached the spot. Where the police found the complainant Rinki. A young man was lying nearby in a bloody condition. The police immediately took him to Gangaram Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Rinki told the police that the injured youth Mukesh Jha was his friend. She had come to have dinner with him at Kiwi restaurant in Karol Bagh. While returning from there, three boys standing near the scooter stopped them near Sat Brahwa School and tried to snatch their mobile phone.
When he protested, one of them attacked Mukesh with a knife and ran away after looting the phone. During the investigation, the police team scanned the CCTV camera footage in the direction of the escape of the miscreants and then after technical investigation, caught the three accused.
