Spurned man stabs school teacher 22 times in Delhi

A former Delhi policeman’s son brutally stabbed a schoolteacher 22 times on Tuesday, after she spurned his advances.  Surendra Singh had been stalking Karuna Kumar for more than a year.

The incident once again shamed the capital as none of the passersby on the busy road came forward to rescue the victim, who collapsed even as she tried to save herself. Singh, 34, stabbed Karuna, 21, for around two-and-a-half minutes until she lay unconscious.

In the CCTV footage of the incident, Surendra was seen holding the woman with one hand and plunging the scissors with the other. After a couple of blows, Karuna was seen falling on the ground with the impact. This, however, did not stop the assailant as he continued his frenzied stabbing.

A man was seen moving towards them to save the victim but soon backed off fearing attack on him. Surendra was later chased by people, beaten up and handed over to the police. Karuna was rushed to a trauma centre in Civil Lines, where she was declared brought dead. The gruesome murder evoked sharp reactions. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia blamed the Delhi Police for attacks on women.

“Shocking incident in Delhi of stabbing of 21-yr old woman. Delhi Police needs to focus on citizen’s security than harassing AAP



MLAs (sic),” he tweeted, accusing the police controlled by the Central government of losing sight of its priorities.

Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal also tweeted on the gruesome murder, recalling the Anand Parbat murder last year in which a woman named Meenakshi was stabbed by a neighbour. “Another woman has been stabbed 22 times to death. Our society and system’s hollowness stands exposed. Shameful,” she tweeted in Hindi. Karuna was a teacher at Novel Riches School and was on her way to school with her cousin Neha when Surendra attacked her with a pair of scissors, near Labour Chowk in North Delhi’s Burari around 9 am. Surendra owns a shop in Rohini and is going through divorce proceedings. He has two children.

Karuna’s family members said that Surendra had been troubling Karuna for the last one-and-a-half years, and they had lodged a police complaint about five months back. Subsequently, both the families had reached a compromise.

Surendra had met Karuna at a computer centre where she was a student and the former a tutor. This crime comes close on the heels of a 32-year-old married woman being stabbed to death, allegedly by her lover, on Sunday. The culprit then committed suicide in southwest Delhi's Inderpuri area.