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Updated: May 13, 2019 07:23 IST

A Delhi court on Friday convicted four persons of the murder of a man, who had died of septicaemia from a stab injury. The case dates back to July 30, 2013, when Vishal (single name), 18, was attacked by four members of a family from his neighbourhood and stabbed near his house in Delhi’s Nangloi.

The same night, prior to the incident, Vishal’s family had confronted the family of the main accused, Abdul, for ‘defaming’ his sister. According to the case papers, in 2011, Vishal’s sister had married a man of her choice and Abdul’s relative, Juned, used to call her names.

Following the confrontation, the accused family started beating Vishal’s family and then returned to his house, dragging Vishal to the Sabji Mandi in the alley, outside their house. Abdul with the help of relatives Juned, Jamil and Ashfaq, stabbed Vishal in the abdomen.

Vishal who was discharged from Sanjay Gandhi Memorial (SGM) Hospital the same day, died three months after the incident, at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on November 23, 2013, during the course of the treatment. His father Satya Prakash informed the court that Vishal was admitted at least thrice to the hospital following the incident, each time after his condition deteriorated due to the stab wound.

The doctor in the post-mortem report informed the court that Vishal died of “shock associated with septicaemia” and felt that the death was a “consequence of the stab injury”.

Relying on the doctor’s report and father’s statement, additional sessions judge Virender Kumar Goyal found Abdul and three other members of his family guilty of Vishal’s murder.