Shahbad dairy case ‘victim had warned sahil to stay away’

Shahbad dairy case ‘victim had warned sahil to stay away’

Police file 640-page chargesheet against man who repeatedly stabbed and bludgeoned the 16-year-old girl; her father demands death penalty.

A month after a 16-year-old girl was killed in north-west Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy, the police on Wednesday said a chargesheet has been filed against the accused Sahil for various offences, including sexual harassment and murder.

The victim’s father demanded death penalty for the accused, adding that he would perform his daughter’s final rites only after she gets justice.

On the evening of May 28, Sahil, 23, allegedly killed the victim in full public glare by stabbing her over 20 times and bludgeoning her with a stone.

The police arrested him from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr the next day, even as CCTV footage of the incident went viral.

On Tuesday, Delhi Police filed before a Rohini court the 640-page chargesheet under Sections 302 (murder), 354A (punishment for sexual harassment) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the IPC.

It also charged the accused under Section 12 (punishment for committing sexual harassment upon a child) of the POCSO Act, Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act as well as Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act.

The special POCSO court will next hear the case on July 1.

‘Rejected his advances’

According to a senior officer, Sahil told the police that he had threatened her multiple times for spurning his advances.

“A day before the murder, the victim and one of her male friends had warned Sahil to stay away from her. This infuriated him and he decided to murder her using a button knife he had bought 15 days earlier from Haridwar,” he said.

As per the chargesheet, “14 biological exhibits, one chemical exhibit, four physical exhibit and one cyber exhibit” were examined at the Forensic Science Laboratory, Rohini.

Speaking to The Hindu, the victim’s father said he was satisfied with the police investigation but wanted death penalty for the accused.

“We will perform the rituals once the boy is given death penalty. He killed my daughter so brutally that it still shakes my family,” he said, adding that his 12-year-old son is still traumatised from his sister’s death. The father went on to add, “After my daughter told me that [the accused] was troubling her, I asked her to avoid meeting him, but Sahil continued troubling her.”