A 21-year-old and his friends took the knife that his sister used to cut her birthday cake and allegedly killed a man, accusing him of harassing her, police in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district said.
Police said on Saturday that eight accused have been identified on the basis of CCTV footage and other technical intelligence. They have all been arrested.
According to a police officer, the main accused killed Anil, who “was in frequent contact with his sister and had made inappropriate advances”.
Anil had purportedly told the woman that he would give her gold and silver jewellery if she married him, police said. When the sister told her brother about the matter, he allegedly decided to kill Anil, said Superintendent of Police Ankit Soni.
The brother allegedly considered Anil’s actions obscene and disrespectful, and hatched a plan with his friends. “They ordered five knives online as a part of their plan and began tracking the victim’s movements,” the officer said.
Speaking to reporters outside the police station, the brother said, “I had to take action. My sister is young and was being harassed. He used obscene language to speak to her. I could not sit silently.”
On Friday, when Anil was drinking at a nearby locality, the 21-year-old was tipped off, following which he turned up with his friends, surrounded him and allegedly killed him with a knife.
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“They wanted to kill Anil in such a sensational way that they would become infamous in the area. They first ordered five knives from a shopping website, then they celebrated the sister’s birthday, let her cut her cake and used the same knife as the murder weapon,” SP Soni said.
