Apart from Zikra, three more people have also been detained in connection with the Seelampur murder.
Delhi Police earlier said it was probing the role of Zikra, a woman who worked as a bouncer for jailed gangster Hashim Baba’s wife, after the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old boy in the Seelampur area.
The family members of the deceased, meanwhile, have claimed that Zikra, a local woman known as ‘lady don’ in the area, was present at the crime scene when Kunal was killed, the officer said.
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Kunal, 17, was stabbed on Thursday evening in New Seelampur, and police have identified two suspects — Sahil and Rehan — after scanning CCTV camera footage from the area, Joint Commissioner of Police (Eastern Range), Pushpendra Kumar, said.
Ziqra was also a resident of Seelampur. She had been in jail under the Arms Act but had been freed 15 days before the murder. She is notorious for carrying a gun with her at all times.
She also worked as a bouncer for jailed gangster Hashim Baba’s wife, Zoya. She was reportedly living with Zoya before the gangster’s wife was jailed in a case related to drugs. It is believed that Ziqra was trying to form her gang after Zoya’s arrest.
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After Ziqra left jail, she was allegedly looking for a man named “Lala” who had beaten her brother. She had asked the victim, Kunal, about Lala, and when he did not help her, she allegedly killed him, as per a report by Hindustaan.
Parveen, the mother of the deceased, told reporters, “Zikra used to roam around in the area with a pistol. An incident happened with her cousin, Sahil, but my son was not involved in it. Yet they killed him. They brutally stabbed him multiple times.”
