Violent crimes by juveniles are on the rise. Delhi alone reports three to four heinous murders committed by juveniles every month. Some of these crimes are extremely troubling. On August 30, four youngsters were apprehended in the well-heeled colony of Malviya Nagar for having stabbed to death another youth and his cousin, who sustained serious injuries. A case of rivalry attenuated by provocative social media posts against each other accelerated a sense of enmity that ended in murder.

Last year, a teenager was booked in the capital for having stabbed another youth 50 times and then dancing over his dead body. This crime was recorded in yet another social media post. A month ago, the city witnessed three back-to-back crimes committed by teenagers. Five minors got drunk and committed two murders and a series of robberies in east Delhi.

Twenty hours later, three youths stabbed a man to death only because he asked them for directions, and a few days later, a man was critically wounded by two youngsters in South Delhi. Another shocker was when three teenagers walked into a nursing home in New Delhi, some months ago, and shot dead a 55-year-old medical practitioner over a petty dispute regarding a medical bill.

Two other recent heinous crimes shocked the nation: one was when a 17-year-old student hammered his best friend to death in the city of Meerut because he was blackmailing his girlfriend with some of her personal photographs, and the second was in July 2025, when two class 12 students killed the principal of their school in Hissar because he asked them to get a haircut.

A 19-year-old playschool teacher in Bhiwani died with her throat being slit on August 11, with the culprits suspected to be........

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