India, July 17 -- New Delhi

Twenty-four people, including eight juveniles, were chargesheeted by the police for conspiring and killing a 32-year-old man in an "act of revenge", after one of the 24 was initially attacked by a group of people over his relationship with an 18-year-old woman, police said on Wednesday.

The incident took place at Anna Nagar, near Pragati Maidan, central Delhi, on April 9. The prime conspirator, identified as 20-year-old Prashant Kumar, was attacked by relatives and friends of the woman and hospitalised, following which he sent 23 people to retaliate and kill the woman's family, who fled.

However, their neighbour Nand Kishore was spotted by the group and he was assaulted and stabbed multiple times, according ...