Surveillance footage captured a horrific killing on a busy street in India’s capital as a woman was stabbed more than 20 times, while bystanders walked by and failed to come to the woman’s aid.
Video footage taken from a CCTV camera in North Delhi shows the man repeatedly stabbing the woman with what police said was a blade from a pair of scissors. Near the end of the vicious attack the man stomps on the woman’s head.
Throughout the attack, which occurred Tuesday, several people can be seen walking away as the woman falls to the ground.
One man wearing a backpack rushes towards the attack but appears to retreat after being threatened.
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At one point, a person on a motorcycle appears to stop and briefly address the man standing over the woman’s body before driving off.
As the man attempted to flee the scene, some bystanders did eventually intervene and held the attacker down until police arrived. Authorities say they have charged the suspect with murder.
The Indian Express identified the victim as Karuna Kumar, 21, and the alleged attacker as 34-year-old Aditya Malik, who also goes by Surender Singh. Police said the man had been stalking Karuna for more than a year before the attack after the two had met in a computer class.
Some media reported the woman was stabbed as many as 30 times.
“The accused had been troubling the victim for at least one year,” deputy police commissioner Madhur Verma told the Indian Express. “He committed the brazen attack when the victim was heading towards the Novel Reaches School, where she had been working as a teacher for the last four months.”
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It’s the third time a woman has been attacked by a stalker in the capital this week.
On Monday, a 25-year-old woman was thrown off a building in Mongolpuri. She remains in hospital in critical condition. Last Sunday, a 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death in front of her house in view of her neighbours by a man who then killed himself, according to the Times of India.
Awareness of violence against women in India has been growing since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus, which drew international outrage and condemnation.
In 2015, there were more than 2,000 reported cases of gang rape in India and a total of 34,000 reported rape cases according to the country’s National Crime Records Bureau.
The report noted that “crimes against women are reported every two minutes in India.”
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