NEW DELHI: An 18-year-old man was killed while his friend was injured in a scuffle over ‘gutka' in northeast Delhi's Seemapuri, police said on Monday.
On Sunday, police received information from the GTB Hospital that two people with stab injuries had been brought to the facility. They were identified as Shoaib of Shaheed Nagar in Ghaziabad, and Suhail (18) of Old Seemapuri.
Shoaib was declared brought dead at the hospital, the police said.
According to them, a friend of the victims had gone to buy gutka from a shop in Old Seemapuri on Sunday where he had a verbal altercation with a relative of its owner.
He informed five of his friends, including Shoaib and Suhail, and all of them went to the spot, deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said.
On reaching the shop, they found its owner, Narsingh, consuming alcohol with another person while the relative was also present there, the police said.
A fight broke out, and an inebriated Narsingh attacked the group of friends with a pair of scissors, following which they fled, the DCP said.
Later, two of them were shifted to the hospital, the police said, adding that a case has been registered under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code at Seemapuri police station.
Narsingh, his relative Hemant and the man he was drinking with, Amir, have been arrested. The weapon of offence was recovered from Amir, the DCP added.
