Two minors held for killing classmate

New Delhi, Aug 24  Two juveniles were on Monday taken into custody for killing their 15-year-old classmate over a petty issue, police said on Monday.

The class 9 students, who reside in Hari Nagar area of west Delhi, were apprehended from Haryana's Jhajjar on charges of killing their classmate Subham Jindal.

Police said that Jindal was beaten to death by wooden sticks around 6 p.m. on Sunday and his body was recovered around 3.30 a.m. on Monday from a vacant plot behind a petrol pump in Najafgarh area in west Delhi.

Jindal, who studied in Krishna Model School situated in Najafgarh, was persuaded by the two to come outside for cycling on Sunday evening. 

"As the juveniles were the last to be seen with the victim, we apprehended them from their ancestral home in Jhajjar on Monday," Deputy Commissioner of Police R.A. Sanjeev told IANS.