Court to decide on charges in Burari stabbing incident

A Delhi court will on Monday consider whether to take cognisance of the chargesheet against a man for alleged savage killing of a 21-year-old woman by stabbing her 22 times on a busy road here in front of several onlookers last month.

Link magistrate Riya Guha supplied the copy of chargesheet to 34-year-old accused Surender Singh and put up the matter before the concerned court for October 17.

The chargesheet was filed in the court by Delhi police on Friday against Surender, who is currently in judicial custody, for the offence of murder under Section 302 of IPC.

The brutal murder, which was captured in CCTV camera, took place on September 20 when Karuna Kumar, a teacher in a North Delhi school, was going for work, the police said, adding that Surender had been stalking her for over 18 months. The police said Karuna, along with her cousin Neha, was on her way to work when Surender attacked her with a pair of scissors near Labour Chowk in Burari.

As Surender caught Karuna off guard and plunged the single blade of scissors in her body, a man rushed to stop him but soon backed off fearing he would be attacked.

Within about three minutes, Surender had stabbed Karuna 22 times, as onlookers kept away, it said.