Student stabbed by school mates

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death after he tried to intervene in a brawl between his school mates in east Delhi's Shakarpur area on Friday.

One juvenile has been apprehended and few others are being questioned by the police for the crime.

Body of the victim Akash has been handed over to the family after postmortem for last rites, said police.

Class 10 student Akash is survived by his parents and an elder sister. Police said Akash lived in Mandawali and studied in a government school in Shakarpur.

On Friday, police said, Akash didn't go to school for some unspecified reasons. However in the afternoon, after having lunch, he walked towards his school to meet his friends.

In the evening, Akash was standing at the boundary of a ground near the school and watching his colleagues play a sport where the members of opposing teams were hitting each other with a ball.

As the play was on, suddenly two boys of opposing teams starterd having an argument over some issue. Soon the players of the opposing teams started beating each other, forcing Akash to intervene.

As Akash was persuading the boys to stop the fight, a boy lunged toward him with a knife and stabbed it on his chest multiple times.

An injured Akash was rushed to nearby Metro hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.

The accused in the case was nabbed from his home on Friday and the next day he was produced before a juvenile justice board which sent him to  a juvenile home, said police.