Police suspect lynching 14 years after mother names Muslim friends

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A day after Mail Today reported on the murder of 14-year-old Yogesh Kumar in Delhi, police said a man's hunt is to catch three suspects while one of them has already been nailed.

Yogesh's mother has claimed that he was held hostage and lynched by his Muslim friends. According to police, Shravan, who was arrested two days after the incident, has not confessed his involvement in the crime.

During the interrogation, he revealed that he was accompanied by three friends and one of them is a Muslim. A source close to the investigation said: "Circumstantial evidence suggests that the five consumed alcohol in the late hours of June 23. It may have had a intense discussion that it first turned into a fight and later resulted in the death of Yogesh”.

'THEY DEMANDED RS 10.000'

However, Yogesh's mother, Seema, told Mail Today: "On June 23, Yogesh left the house after receiving a call from his friend Arif. He, along with other friends, including a girl named Fatima. They told me that if they did not give the money on time, they would kill my son.

"The next morning, I was told that my son was killed and thrown somewhere along the railway line near the New Delhi station”, Said Seema, who lives in Shahadra's Meet Nagar.

Yogesh was found dead in mysterious circumstances near the New Delhi station last month. Multiple marks of injuries were found all over his face and the body indicated that he had been beaten to death. Meanwhile, on Monday, police said it was not a case of lynching, but a brutal murder. An FIR in possession of Mail Today says that the body was lying in a pool of blood. Broken glass jars, a stone and some bricks were also found with traces of blood.