IANS/New Delhi

Radhika Tanwar
For over three years, he carried the stinging humiliation of being beaten up in public for stalking Radhika Tanwar and on Tuesday morning, he killed the 20-year-old girl, police said yesterday.
The gunman has been identified as Radhika’s former neighbour and two of his friends have been detained.
Three days after the murder of 20-year-old Radhika on International Women’s Day stunned Delhiites, evoking reactions from Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s wife Gursahran Kaur, the stark revelations by the police in the case could not have been more dramatic.
Vijay alias Ram Singh, 25, hailing from Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh, used to work at an embroidery unit in Naraina village. He was thrashed by the locals for stalking Radhika three-and-a-half-years ago.
“He killed her to avenge the humiliation,” deputy commissioner of police H G S Dhaliwal told reporters.
“He was bashed up in front of his community members, who also worked in the unit. He felt humiliated and nurtured a grudge about the incident. Vijay has a psychopathic streak. He left the Naraina village after 15 days for Mumbai and used to regularly speak to his friends, who hailed from his native place, about the incident. Once in a while, he came to Delhi,” said Dhaliwal.
Vijay returned to Delhi one-and-half month ago and started looking for a job. He contacted the owner of the embroidery unit where he was working earlier, but was refused work because of his “bad character”, Dhaliwal added. Vijay then got himself a job at an embroidery unit at Shakurpur Basti in north Delhi.
Vijay stalked Radhika, a second-year student of Ram Lal Anand College in Shantiniketan, twice after that. On Tuesday morning, he shot her as she was crossing a foot overbridge near Dhaula Kuan and disappeared into the crowd of students and office-goers, Dhaliwal said. Vijay then contacted his friends, Ashraf and Tabrez, who were living in north Delhi.
Late at night, he told Ashraf and Tabrez he had killed Radhika and asked them to bring his belongings from the embroidery unit at Shakurpur Basti. “He stayed with his friends the following night. On Wednesday, the three moved to Gurgaon to look for a job for Vijay. But when they saw that the matter had intensified, Ashraf and Tabrez asked Vijay to leave the town. They dropped him at the Gurgaon railway station on Thursday,” said the commissioner. “The duo then left for their native place, fearing arrest for helping Vijay.
Ashraf and Tabrez were detained from Vishwa town in Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh on their way to Delhi.