Man stabbed to death over enmity

A 26-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Sultanpuri area of outer Delhi over an alleged personal enmity, the police said on Thursday.

The police received a call from Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night stating that Suraj, a resident of Sultanpuri, was declared dead on arrival after he was brought to the facility with stab wounds.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Suraj had a long-standing enmity with the assailants, the police said. He was stabbed when he was going to attend a wedding function with a friend on Wednesday night, they said.

“Teams have been deployed to identify and arrest the accused. The police are scanning CCTV footage from the nearby areas, besides speaking to eyewitnesses,” a senior police officer said.