Patiala, April 3 -- A 15-year-old boy from Punjab's Patiala district brutally murdered his 17-year-old friend for his iPhone 11, hours after attending his birthday party.

Police said on Wednesday that the accused lured Navjot Singh of Alipur Ariyan village to a rail track in Rajpura town of the district around 10.30 pm on March 25 and stabbed him in the chest with a sharp-edged weapon to steal his iPhone 11. Navjot died on the spot.

The victim and the accused, both school dropouts, met around three months ago through a mutual friend.

In a bid to cover up the murder, the accused sought help from another friend, a 14-year-old boy from the victim's village, offering him Rs.1,000 to help dispose of Navjot's body. Together, they placed the ...