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A 23-year-old transgression was arrested connected Friday (January 30, 2026) aft a little speech of occurrence successful Delhi's Timarpur area, who was wanted for murdering a antheral wrong a cafe successful Welcome area, an authoritative said.
The accused, Mohammad Moin Qureshi, had been connected the tally since January 23 aft shooting dormant 24-year-old Faizan wrong King Cafe.
"A time aft the incident, Qureshi posted a video connected his societal media relationship confessing to the murder. He aboriginal deleted the video and went underground. A squad was formed to nab him. Subsequently, CCTV confirmed his identification," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Amit Kaushik said.
The serviceman said that connected January 23, astir 10 p.m., Faizan was changeable aggregate times wrong the cafe successful the beingness of respective customers. He succumbed to his injuries connected the spot. An FIR was registered, and an probe into the lawsuit began.
A squad of the Special Cell was formed to nab the accused. The squad received accusation connected the evening of January 29 astir his beingness successful the Trans-Yamuna area, DCP Kaushik said.
In the aboriginal hours of Friday (January 30, 2026), Qureshi was readying to cod wealth successful Timarpur to facilitate his flight from the city. The squad laid a trap. When the accused arrived connected a achromatic motorcycle, helium was signalled to halt and surrender.
"Instead (of stopping), Qureshi opened occurrence astatine the constabulary squad successful an effort to flee. After issuing a 2nd warning, the squad retaliated successful self-defence, during which the accused sustained a slug wounded successful his near leg. He was overpowered and taken to the infirmary for treatment," the serviceman said.
Police recovered 1 loaded semi-automatic pistol on with unrecorded and fired cartridges from his possession. During preliminary interrogation, Qureshi disclosed that helium and the unfortunate were known to each different and lived successful the aforesaid locality.
"The motive down the execution was a fiscal quality aft Qureshi borrowed Rs 30,000 from Faizan and failed to repay it. Qureshi claimed that the unfortunate misbehaved with his begetter implicit the issue, pursuing which helium procured a pistol and changeable Faizan aggregate times aft learning astir his beingness astatine the cafe," helium added.
Police said Qureshi studied up to people X and initially worked astatine a store earlier turning to crime. In 2025, helium was arrested successful a scooter theft case. After being released from jail, helium resumed transgression activities. Further probe is underway.
