19-Year-Old Kills Class 9 Student Over Phone Password, Covers Body with Big Teddy Bear

New Delhi: A Class 9 student, was allegedly killed by a 19-year-old Delhi University student, Mayank Singh, after he asked the boy to share his phone password with him.

The incident took place at Pitampura where the two friends met in a park.

The police have also recovered opium in a black polythene bag and marijuana from the area.

Guriqbal Singh Sidhu, an additional DCP (north-west), said that they have arrested the culprit, who is a second-year student of Maharaja Agrasen College under Delhi University.

"Mayank Singh met with the victim six months ago on social media and decided to meet on April 21 when the incident took place," he said.

However, police said that they came to know about the incident when the complainant, who runs a factory in Outer Delhi, told the police and informed them that his son was missing.

Sidhu said that he told the police that his son had left home around 7.50 AM on April 21 on the pretext of going for a morning walk, but when he did not return, he tried to contact him. The son did not respond to their messages and calls after which they lodged a missing complaint.

Also, the complainant informed the police that after scanning his son's messages, they found that he was talking to a person on social media and was also going to meet him. Read more

An officer said that police scanned over 100 CCTV cameras in the area where they found the last location of his phone and recovered his body from the bushes in an SU block park of Pitampura, four days later in a decomposed condition. However, it was covered with a big teddy bear and leaves.

As per the source, the district crime forensic team was called and they found a matchbox, five cigarettes, two half-burnt cigarettes, and some intoxicants.

During an investigation, police found that Mayank was missing after the incident and he was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Pilkhuwa, where he was hiding. "During questioning, he told the police that he came in contact with the Class 9 student around six months. They decided to meet on April 21. Mayank asked him to share the password of his iPhone, but when he refused, he hit him. After he was hit, Mayank first hit him with a stone and then strangled him to death," Sidhu said.

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