Radhika Tanwar?s suspected killer detained
Police on late Thursday night apprehended the man who is suspected to have stalked Delhi University student Radhika Tanwar for three years before shooting her dead on Tuesday near her college.
The suspect, who matches the sketch released by the police on Wednesday and was apparently recognised by Radhika?s family is being grilled by the police along with another who allegedly helped him, media reports said.
Radhika Tanwar, a degree second year student of Ramlal Anand College in Delhi University?s South Campus, was shot dead near her college on Tuesday.
Radhika?s family said the sketch, released by the police on Wednesday, was an ?80 percent match? of a youth who lives near their home and had been following Radhika for over three years.
Though the family had never lodged any police complaint, they had warned the youth not to harass the girl.
Delhi DCP HGS Dhaliwal, talking to reporters, had said the sketch was prepared with the help of description given by people who saw the killer escape and said the portrait can now be fine-tuned with the help of witnesses.
Dhaliwal, however, pointed that the stalker is only a suspect at this stage.
?We can?t say for certainty that the killer is same as her earlier stalker few years ago but he is a suspect,? he added.
?We now have definite line of investigation. We have narrowed down the search and several teams have been constituted,? Dhaliwal said.
The police officer said Radhika?s family was cooperating with the police despite the tragedy that has struck the family.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, under criticism for lack of safety of women in the capital, on Thursday shifted some blame for such incidents of the public too.
She pointed that no witness has come forward in the Radhika murder case, though the footbridge over which Radhika was killed was crowded at the time of the murder.
Dikshit, defending the police after initially venting ire on the force, appealed to the public to be more pro-active to fight crime.