India, April 10 -- New Delhi

An incident of robbery spiralled into murder when a 22-year-old autorickshaw driver was stabbed to death when he resisted the attempts of five accused, who had boarded his vehicle near the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station in the early hours of April 5 and asked him to drop them at Connaught Place, police officers aware of the incident said.

Police identified the victim as Suraj Kumar, who resided in Mandawali and was an immigrant from Bihar. The accused are in their 20s and live in Palwal, Haryana.

Investigators said that the victim remained unidentified initially and there was no eyewitness. "Teams scanned CCTV footage and spoke to residents and vendors. Footage analysis revealed that five individuals had...