The quiet morning of Mangolpuri was shattered on Monday by a horrific act of violence that has once again put the spotlight on juvenile crime in the national capital. Chiranshu, a 16-year-old boy who was reportedly heading to his government school to collect his exam date sheet, never made it to the gates. Instead, he was intercepted by a group of four minors who, according to preliminary police investigations, had been nursing a grudge over a petty dispute from a few days prior.
The attack was not just violent; it was chillingly clinical. Witnesses described a scene of absolute chaos near a water tank adjacent to the school. The attackers confronted Chiranshu, and during the scuffle, he was stabbed with a sharp-edged weapon—suspected to be an ice pick—with such force that it remained lodged in his skull. Terrified onlookers saw the boy running for help, desperately trying to pull the weapon out before collapsing on the pavement.
Local residents and passersby rushed to his aid and moved him to the Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital. However, the medical team declared him dead on arrival. For Chiranshu’s father, the news was a bolt from the blue. He described his son as a hardworking student who was solely focused on his upcoming pre-board examinations and had no known enemies.
The Delhi Police acted swiftly, deploying multiple teams to scan CCTV footage and interview witnesses. Within hours, four minors—all schoolmates of the victim—were apprehended. “It appears to be a case of premeditated revenge,” a senior police official stated. “The primary accused had a fight with the victim recently and decided to settle the score on Monday morning.”
As the investigation continues, the incident has left parents in the Mangolpuri area gripped with fear. The presence of a weapon in the hands of teenagers and the audacity to carry out a murder in broad daylight near a school has raised serious questions about the safety of children in the city’s residential pockets. For now, a family mourns a young life cut short, and a community waits for justice to be served.
