A COURT here on Tuesday permitted the Delhi Police to interrogate Sahil, accused of stabbing a 16-year-old girl over 20 times and bludgeoning her to death with a concrete block, in its custody for two days . Sahil, 20, was produced before Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Jyoti Nain who took note of the plea of the interrogators and sent him to two-day police custody during which he is likely to be interrogated about the offence, the motive and ensuring recovery of weapon of offence, sources said.

The accused was produced before a magisterial court before the usual court timings due to security reasons, they said. The victim, Sakshi, was brutally killed in public view on Sunday evening in Shahbad area of northwest Delhi. She had 34 injury marks on her body and her skull was smashed, police had said. The Delhi Police sought the custody of Sahil on the grounds that he frequently changed his statements and that the weapon used for committing the offence was yet to be recovered, the sources added.

Sahil was arrested from Bulandshahr after a call from his aunt to his father was traced to a location in Uttar Pradesh. After his medical examination there, he was brought to the national capital late Monday evening. Meanwgile, AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj lashed out at Lt Governor V K Saxena over the murder of a minor girl in the Shahbad Dairy area, alleging that the people of Delhi have “lost faith” in the national capital’s law-and-order system. The Delhi Government has also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the victim’s family. The knife used by the youth was bought by him around 15 days ago and police are yet to recover it, a senior officer said on Tuesday. According to police, since Sahil bought the knife days before the incident, it is not unlikely he was planning to kill her already, but he also claimed that he killed the girl in a fit of rage since she had been ignoring him. A new CCTV footage has surfaced online in which the accused could be purportedly seen talking to a person just minutes before committing the crime. Police officials investigating the case claimed that the killing was pre-planned and the accused, Sahil, was waiting for the girl in the bylane for that very purpose.