A 28-year-old youth, wanted for a number of robbery and theft cases, was on Tuesday stabbed to death around 4.30 pm by a group of men in Dwarka's sector-1, police said on Wednesday. Police are trying to identify the murderers and multiple raids are being conducted.
Police said the deceased has been identified as Avinash Kumar, a resident of Vijay Enclave in Dwarka. Kumar was married and has a two-and -a-half-year-old daughter. He used to run a water purifier shop with his father. He had about a dozen cases of robbery and theft registered against him, police said.
According to police, Kumar had got a call from a man known to him. "His friend told police that the man on call asked Kumar to come to Dwarka sector one, to which Kumar agreed.
He said Kumar was called in a park, where a group of men attacked him. As Kumar tried to escape, two or three men in the group took out a knife and stabbed him. Seeing his friend bleed profusely, the boy also intervened but was thrashed. It was when he started to raise alarm for help, the group left Kumar in semi-conscious state and fled," said as senior police officer.
Police said Kumar's friend first took him home, but as his condition deteriorated, he was rushed to hospital, where he died. The hospital then called up police and a case of murder was registered.
"The youth has identified a few of the attackers as Vijay, Rashi, Raju among three others. Footage from nearby CCTV cameras is being checked to ascertain the sequence of incident and efforts to nab those who have been identified, are being made," police said.