new delhi a 20yearold it student son of the general manager of a public sector company was fatally stabbed by unknown assailants just a few hundred metres from his home in south delhis vasant kunj on thursday night in what police suspect is a brutal vendetta murder the youngest son of suraj modi general manager of minerals and metals trading corporation mmtc shobhit lived with his family at c6 vasant kunj a few metres away from the delhi public school vasant kunj shobhit had spent thursday evening with five friends at the dlf promenade mall in the neighbourhood he was dropped to the mall in the familys car shobhit told the driver to go back home saying he would be called when needed around 40 minutes before being found at the c5 gate he called up home in c6 vasant kunj and told his family he would return in half an hour the guard at c5 ajay kumar pandey seeing shobhit stumble towards the gate initially thought he was drunk i am not sure which side he came from though i suspect he emerged from the lonely stretch connecting the c5 area to the mall he stumbled thrice picked himself up before finally collapsing on the car barrier he told toi i heard modis phone ring and picked it up a girl on the other side asked where shobhit was i told her the location and said he was bleeding said pandey he claimed police arrived 25 minutes later but refused to say why he himself never called the cops the vasant kunj police have registered a case of death and are investigating the case according to dcp south chhaya sharma the chain of events began around 4pm after the deceaseds mother returned from shopping and modi borrowed the family car and asked the driver to drop him near the dlf mall in the evening he received a call from friends and went to the vasant kunj mall and stayed there till around 9pm after which his friends two boys and three girls residing in different areas of south delhi began departing modi was among the last to leave the cctv at the mall shows one of his female friends leaving around 915pm said sharma the cops said they were questioning a number of shobhits friends sources said that two of those friends a boy and a girl spotted with the shobhit at the mall are yet to be questioned separate teams are tracking the phone details of the deceased while another team is finding out the exact spot a distance of 12 to 15km in the open shrub area surrounding the mall where the stabbing is believed to have taken place shobhits family has refused to the media the postmortem was done at aiims and cops are awaiting the report the deceased was a keen website developer having launched his own website shobhitmodicom in 2009 while