New Delhi, Apr 20 (PTI) A person was stabbed in the chest in southeast Delhi's Kalkaji area while trying to rescue his 14-year-old neighbour from being beaten up by three school students, police said on Thursday.

Police officials said they received information on Wednesday about a patient with stab wounds being admitted in Humdard hospital and subsequently, transferred to Safdarjung Hospital.

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They said the man was stabbed by a group of three-four boys.

The victim's neighbour, a Class 8 student of a government school in Kalkaji, reported that around 2 pm on Wednesday, when he was heading home from school, a boy from another section, along with two others, caught hold of him and started beating him up.

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According to police, the victim tried to intervene and save him but the trio beat him up and stabbed him with a knife before fleeing the scene.

A passerby helped take the injured to the hospital, they said.

A case has been registered and a 15-year-old juvenile was apprehended on Thursday, police said, adding that a search was on for the others, both of whom are residents of Govindpuri.

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