New Delhi: An argument over a pair of shoes allegedly escalated into a fatal stabbing outside a school in west Delhi’s Mohan Garden Wednesday, leaving a Class XII student dead. Police have apprehended five people, including three minors, in connection with the incident.A PCR call was received around 6.10 pm regarding a boy with stab injuries. He was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries during treatment.According to the preliminary investigation, a Class XII student had an argument with the deceased’s friend over his shoes and allegedly threatened him. Police said the friend was not wearing shoes that matched the school’s prescribed uniform, about which the other student had reportedly complained to a teacher.As students were leaving the school, the deceased and his friend were allegedly confronted by associates of the student involved in the earlier argument. During the assault, one of the attackers allegedly stabbed the victim, causing fatal injuries.Crime and forensic teams inspected the spot, and police recovered a knife believed to have been used in the attack near the school gate.The victim’s father, an ex-serviceman, had arrived to pick up his son around 6.30 pm when school authorities informed him about the incident. “He then rushed to the hospital, but doctors had declared the boy dead,” a relative said.The boy had studied in a private school till Class X before it shut down. “We enrolled him in the evening shift of this school as admissions had closed everywhere. He would’ve graduated in a few months and wanted to become an army officer like his father,” his cousin said.Following a post-mortem at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, the family took the body to their native village, Sikandarpur, in Haryana for the last rites.Police said three of the five people apprehended were students of the same school. An FIR has been registered at Mohan Garden police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to murder and voluntarily causing hurt. Further investigation is underway.
