New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old boy was brutally beaten to death by a vendor in Delhi’s Mayur Vihar area on Wednesday, according to a news report.

The boy, Rajat Menon, was heading to his tutorial classes along with other friends when he got embroiled in an altercation with a shopkeeper. The shopkeeper along with some of his friends thrashed him brutally, said one of Menon's friends who witnessed the gruesome incident.

The shopkeeper took the boy to the hospital after he collapsed, where the boy succumbed to his injuries owing to the alleged assault.

The parents of the deceased were informed of the unfateful incident after an hour of his death. According to the police, the boy didn’t suffer any external injuries. The cops are awaiting postmortem report.