Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal inspected the crime scene in front of Khalsa College, Delhi University, on Sunday afternoon, where Parminder Singh, a close aide of slain Ujjain professor H S Sabharwal’s son, was found stabbed to death.

The commissioner’s visit shows how important the case is for the Delhi Police, an officer said.

Multiple teams of the local police and one from the Special Cell are probing the murder simultaneously.

Dadwal visited the crime spot with Joint Commissioner (North) Karnal Singh and Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagarpreet Hooda. He held a meeting in Hooda’s office to plan the next course of action. Parminder Singh’s brother Kailash, meanwhile, said that Himanshu Sabharwal was hiding vital information from the police.

“On July 16, my brother had gone to Jabalpur to get some documents related to Professor Sabharwal,” Kailash told Newsline over the phone. “After he returned, he was visibly disturbed. Why is Himanshu not telling the police about this?”

Asked about the documents brought from Jabalpur, Kailash said they were “important papers” connected with the acquittal of the six ABVP activists who had allegedly lynched the professor.

Regarding Himanshu Sabharwal’s candlelight vigil for his father at India Gate, Kailash said: “Would Himanshu have gone ahead with the vigil if it was his own brother who died? My brother died fighting for his cause and Himanshu did not even have the courtesy to postpone the vigil.”

He said, “it was my brother’s murder that again brought Professor Sabharwal’s death into the limelight in Delhi, it makes one wonder if the two are not connected.”

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