'Don', 15, stabs boy to death in an Indian village

Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old boy, who called himself 'don', stabbed another boy of his age group to death in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district.

The police on Saturday apprehended the minor and his uncle, and further probe is ongoing. A local police official said, “The accused teenager used to make and share reels on social media platforms after dressing up like a gangster in black clothes. Many reels on his social media platform have been found during the investigation, and it clearly suggests that he was influenced by the slain gangster Durlabh Kashyap, who formed his gang at the age of 15 and was killed four years later.”

Sriyash Tripathi, a police official, told reporters that the incident took place at Babu Patti village under Tarkulwa police station limits. He said the deceased was identified as a 15-year-old Grade 7 student at a local school, who belonged to the same village. The police official, quoting eyewitnesses, said the accused teenager stabbed the victim multiple times after a brief argument. He said the accused fled from the spot after threatening people present at the scene by flashing the knife he used to stab the deceased.

He said the accused has been apprehended from his relative’s house, and the investigation revealed that the accused and the deceased studied together. He said they had strained relations over some petty issue and added that the incident was a fallout of the strained relations between them. Another local police official, however, said that the accused was emboldened as no action was taken against him for previous crimes he had committed in the past few months. He said the accused had attacked the headmaster of his school but was rescued by the village head. “He then started stalking a teenage girl and molested her, but again was rescued after his family’s intervention,” he said.