Congolese youth's murder: Police teams sent to Uttarakhand, HP

Police teams were today sent to Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to track down two youths allegedly involved in the murder of a Congolese youth in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area on Friday night.
While the prime accused, Mobin Azad Saifi, was arrested yesterday, the other two, identified as Mukesh and Prakash, are still at large.
Technical surveillance of their mobile phones showed the presence of one of the accused near Haridwar in Uttarakhand, while another was traced to Himachal Pradesh, following which teams have been sent there, a police official said.
The deceased, Masonda Ketanda Olivier, had come to India on a student visa in 2012. He lived here at a rented accommodation in South Extension and had lately started teaching French at a private institute.

Olivier had received a deep wound on his head after being attacked repeatedly with a stone.
Olivier's friend and other African nationals in the area who rushed to his rescue alleged that it was a racial attack. However, senior police officials denied the allegation and claimed that it was not an incident of hate crime.

A fight had broken out between Olivier and the group over hiring of an auto-rickshaw, police said.
All three accused have criminal past.
Saifi was arrested last year in connection with a case of criminal assault and was sent to Tihar jail where he met Mukesh, who was arrested in a case of cheating. Prakash, who is a driver by profession, had been arrested in a molestation case, police said.