Altercation at wedding leads to murder, another minor severely injured

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An altercation during a wedding ceremony led to the murder of a minor in the Mangolpuri area of Outer Delhi, while a minor friend of the deceased got severely injured during the incident.

It is being alleged that some unidentified miscreants chased and attacked them with knives in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, before fleeing the spot.

Both the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital, where one of them named lovely was declared dead. The other victim identified as Suraj has been admitted to the hospital, where he is fighting for life.

On the information about the incident, a police team from Mongolpuri police station reached the spot. A case under relevant sections was registered by the police and investigation was initiated.

According to a police source, the deceased Lovely used to live with his family at S-Block, Mangolpuri.

In their statement his relatives stated that Lovely had got into fight with some youths, while he went to attend a wedding ceremony in the area. However, people present there in the ceremony controlled both the parties separated them.

Further, on Tuesday night, when Suraj was present with Lovely near his house, two youths suddenly came there and attacked Lovely with a knife, before he could understand anything.

Both the victims started running from there in order to save themselves, but the accused chased them and kept stabbed them multiple times, before fleeing the spot.

Later, when the accused fled the spot, both the injured were rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, where Lovely succumbed to his injuries.

Police is investigating the matter and trying to identify the accused.