The teenager who brutally stabbed to dying a 17-year-old boy in a frenzied assault in north-east Delhi’s Welcome on Tuesday night time, then bragged concerning the homicide and brandished the blood-soaked knife, he used to commit the crime, on the residents of the realm mentioned on Thursday.

CCTV footage of the incident, which surfaced on Wednesday, reveals the 16-year-old suspect dragging the sufferer’s limp physique right into a cramped bylane in Welcome, with homes on both facet. He then begins relentlessly stabbing the facet of the sufferer’s neck, his ears and face. He then pauses, seems to interrupt right into a hysterical dance for just a few seconds, after which resumes to stab his sufferer.

Police mentioned the suspect was apprehended inside an hour of the incident. They didn’t reveal the sufferer’s identify, arguing that he’s a minor.

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Residents of Gali quantity 18, the place the incident passed off, on Thursday claimed they noticed the assailant, with blood-laden palms, smoking a cigarette and waving the knife. “He was walking around and dancing, saying ‘maine maar diya (I killed him)’. He was heavily drunk,” mentioned a 25-year-old resident, who requested to be named.

Shabnam Begum, 45, one other resident, mentioned although the crime passed off in full view of a number of eyewitnesses, everybody was too scared to do something. “People saw him stabbing the boy from their houses, but they were too scared to do anything because he threatened them. In fact, an aged man tried to rescue the victim, but the assailant ran after him, so the old man ran back to his house,” she mentioned.

Another resident, 65, who didn’t wish to be named, mentioned, “We keep our doors shut because young men and boys get drunk in the streets and then rob people. If we ask them to not drink in front of our doors, they trouble us by beating on our doors at night.”

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Heena, 30, who declined to provide her surname out of worry, mentioned her 10-year-old daughter has to navigate these lanes day by day to go to highschool. “Many people have left this neighbourhood because of crime. I too am looking for a flat in another area,” she mentioned.

Deputy commissioner of police (northeast) Joy Tirkey mentioned, “This is a very densely populated area, which is why it’s prone to crime. We ensure heavy patrolling in the area to maintain law and order and prevent crime. There was no control room call made in this case, because police officials were patrolling close to the scene of crime and reached the spot immediately. The accused was apprehended quickly because officials were already present in the area and reacted swiftly.”

At her residence in Jafrabad, the sufferer’s mom, 45, demanded that the assailant be tried as an grownup. “He deserves to be punished severely and should not come out in a few months and kill another person just because he is a minor. He should be tried as an adult,” she mentioned.

The assailant’s mom, sitting at her one-room home in close by Janta Mazdoor Colony, mentioned she desires her son to be punished. “He should not come out of the observation home any time soon, and I have told the police the same,” the 35-year-old mentioned. She additionally mentioned that her son, who dropped out of college after Class 9, had been ingesting closely, and would pressure her to provide him cash.

The boy’s household additionally claimed that he was concerned in a homicide case round two years in the past. However, the police didn’t verify his involvement in one other crime