Bullet for a slap?

Youth whom Radhika had slapped is the prime suspect

Bullet for a slap?

Youth whom Radhika had slapped is the prime suspect

Two days after a Delhi University student Radhika Tanwar was murdered in broad daylight, the police seem to be close to a breakthrough with a youth, whom she had slapped, emerging to be a prime suspect.

Sources said that police had detained a 23-year-old youth named Victor for questioning on Thursday. During questioning, he revealed that a person named Amit might have shot Radhika because she had slapped him some time back.

Rest in peace: Students of RLA college paid homage to Radhika,
at south campus in New Delhi on Thursday. Pic/Subhash Barolia

DCP, (South), HGS Dhaliwal, said that some suspects who had been detained earlier were let off after questioning. Talking about the sketch of the suspected assailant, Dhaliwal said that the family members of the deceased girl had told police that it resembled the person who used to stalk Radhika.

However, he said, the sketch was prepared on the basis of vague recollection of three persons who saw the attacker running away. "Nobody has seen him from front," he said.

The family members had also not reported about any incident of molestation or stalking to police earlier, he added Officials investigating the case said that they have "narrowed down" on the line of investigation and were verifying several points, which have emerged during the probe even as two more people are believed to have approached the police with "relevant inputs". Nineteen teams of the south Delhi police are conducting raids in city and NCR to nab the culprit.

Protests continue

On Thursday hundreds of students marched from Arts Faculty to the V-C office in Delhi University demanding arrest of Radhika Tanwar's killer. In the University's south campus, students carried out a candlelight march.

The Delhi University Students Union has called for a strike on Friday and Saturday in all the colleges . An online campaign demanding justice for Radhika has been started by the DUSU on Facebook and Twitter.