{"id":3622,"date":"2026-04-16T02:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/man-killed-for-refusing-matchbox-3-arrested-minor-held-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:25:59","slug":"man-killed-for-refusing-matchbox-3-arrested-minor-held-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/man-killed-for-refusing-matchbox-3-arrested-minor-held-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed for refusing matchbox, 3 arrested, minor held | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130291844,imgsize-2574570,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/beans-26413-14483033-ibfwcpng.jpg\" alt=\"Man killed for refusing matchbox, 3 arrested, minor held\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">New Delhi: <\/span>Three people have been arrested, and a minor has been apprehended for allegedly murdering a 39-year-old man after he refused to give them a matchbox in northeast Delhi\u2019s Welcome area.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>The deceased, Aqeel Ahmad, was a resident of the JJ Colony in Welcome area.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>According to the police, information about a dead body lying near the Jafrabad metro station was received around 10.27 am on March 23 at the Welcome police station. The body was identified, and a case was registered.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>\u201cBased on technical surveillance and manual inputs, the team traced and nabbed four people,\u201d said DCP (northeast) Ashish Kumar Mishra.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>Three of the accused, identified as Imran (19), Faizan (23), and Sahil (20), were arrested. A 17-year-old boy was also apprehended.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>The accused told cops that they had committed the crime after they asked Ahmad for a matchbox and he refused. They had allegedly attacked him on the spot with a knife before fleeing from the spot.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Police have seized the knife used in the offence.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/man-killed-for-refusing-matchbox-3-arrested-minor-held\/articleshow\/130291847.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Three people have been arrested, and a minor has been apprehended for allegedly murdering a 39-year-old man after he refused to give them a matchbox in northeast Delhi\u2019s Welcome area.The deceased, Aqeel Ahmad, was a resident of the JJ Colony in Welcome area.According to the police, information about a dead body lying near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-delhi"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}