Prof Sabharwal son’s aide found dead near Khalsa College (Lead)
July 24th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) A close aide of Himanshu Sabharwal, son of Ujjain professor H.S. Sabharwal who died after beatings and assault by students in his college in August 2006, was found stabbed to death in Delhi University, police here said Friday.
The body of Parminder Singh, who worked as accountant with Himanshu, was found lying in the Maurice Nagar area of the campus by a passer-by around 11.30 p.m. Thursday, hours after the two pasted posters in the university for a candlelight march scheduled for Sunday to demand justice in the Sabharwal murder case.
“We received a call around 11.30 p.m. about a body found near Khalsa College in the north campus. He was identified as Parminder Singh. A case has been registered and we are investigating all angles, including personal enmity,” DCP (north) Sagar Preet Hooda told IANS.
Hooda said police were recording Himanshu’s statement.
On Thursday, Himanshu dropped Parminder Singh home after pasting posters.
Himanshu said he came to know about the incident after police called him early Friday.
“I dropped him Thursday night and left for my home. Around 1.30 a.m. I received a call from his wife that Singh had not reached home. I told her that he would reach soon. Around 2.30 a.m. I received a call from Delhi Police that he had been murdered,” Himanshu told reporters.
“I haven’t seen his body but police told me that his body has five to seven stab wounds. Police have told me that Singh was stabbed somewhere else and his body was shifted to the spot later,” he said.
There were reports that he had named members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) - the students wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - as being behind the murder.
Denying the allegation, ABVP vice-president Vikas Dahiya said: “If he is alleging that the ABVP is behind the incident, it is ridiculous.”
A court in Maharashtra had on July 13 acquitted six students accused of beating to death Prof Sabharwal in Ujjain’s Madhav College in August 2006.
The six accused, said to be activists of the ABVP, were let off due to lack of evidence against them.
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