Actor Huma Qureshi’s cousin killed over parking dispute in Bhogal, his two neighbours arrested

Actor Huma Qureshi’s cousin Asif Qureshi was stabbed to death by two youths following a dispute over parking a scooter in southeast Delhi’s Bhogal on Thursday (August 8, 2025) night.

Qureshi (42), a resident of Church Lane in Bhogal, sustained a grievous injury to his chest and collapsed on the spot after being attacked with a pointed object. He was rushed to the National Heart Institute in East of Kailash, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

The entire incident was captured on CCTV, and the police have arrested Ujjwal (21) and Gautam (18), who are the victim’s neighbours. The accused fled from the scene of the crime and were tracked by the police and arrested.

Delhi Police said that on Thursday (August 8, 2025) night at 10:30 p.m., Ujjwal who is a music teacher in Lajpat Nagar came to his house and parked his scooter in the front of the house of Mr. Qureshi. When Mr. Qureshi requested him to remove his scooter from there, Ujjawal did not pay any heed to him and when he was requested again, he got aggressive and started abusing and beating the victim recklessly and called out to his younger brother Gautam to come downstairs and kill him. Gautam joined in and took out a sharp object hidden in his pants and stabbed Asif in the chest multiple times.

“Both of them had attacked Mr. Qureshi three months before, but due to the immediate intervention of public persons, Mr. Qureshi was rescued. However, both of them had threatened him with dire consequences,” the police said. DCP Southeast Hemant Tiwari said that Ujjwal has no criminal past, while Gautam was held previously over a fight.”

Further investigation is underway to ascertain the sequence of events and the role of each accused in the assault,” Mr. Tiwari said. He added that they found no communal angle in the incident.

A case under sections 103(1) [murder] and 3(5) [common intention] of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita was registered at Hazrat Nizamuddin police station.

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The victim’s wife, Shaheen Asif Qureshi, alleged that the murder was premeditated and that her neighbours were jealous of her husband. “If it were just about the scooter, they could have moved it. But they stabbed him in the chest with a sharp object. This was not a sudden fight. They did it on purpose,” she alleged. She said her husband worked as a chicken supplier and rarely interacted with those involved in the killing or their family.

Asif’s uncle and the father of actor Huma Qureshi, Saleem Qureshi, described his nephew as a simple and hardworking man, said, “It is a murder over a small issue. It shows how fragile tempers have become in our society. People are getting killed for the pettiest reasons.”