Man held for murder of girlfriend’s relative
NEWDELHI: A 21-year-old man was arrested with his three friends on Friday for allegedly planning and executing the murder of a relative of his girlfriend in south-east Delhi. Police said the accused Shiv Kumar, had used his minor sister to lure the victim, Neeraj, who allegedly thrashed Kumar some time back. The minor sister has been apprehended.
To cover their tracks, the accused had burnt the victim’s face with petrol after trying to cut off his head . However, a tattoo on the victim’s right arm served as a crucial clue for the police to solve the mystery of the body that was found in some bushes in Tughlakabad area on Sunday.
Police said the main accused, Shiv Kumar, who works as a legal assistant, had hatched the plan after his girlfriend’s relative Neeraj opposed their marriage and humiliated him. Police said Kumar sought help of four people — his minor sister, her friend Ravi Sahai, who is a delivery boy at a grocery shop, Sumit, who plays dhol in marriages and Parvez Alam, a DJ.
Police said Kumar asked his sister to befriend Neeraj and call him to Tughlakabad Fort where he was waiting with the three others. Kumar and others murdered Neeraj and left the body in the bushes where it was found on Sunday. Deputy commissioner of police (south-east), Chinmoy Biswal, said the body was identified as that of Neeraj, a resident of Nangla village in Faridabad.
Probe revealed that Neeraj was in a relationship with a minor girl for the past 10-15 days and she had called the victim to meet her, hours before the murder came to light, Biswal said.
The officer said the minor girl revealed that her brother Shiv Kumar had murdered Neeraj. “She disclosed that when she took Neeraj to the jungle, Shiv Kumar and his friends Sumit, Parwez and Ravi attacked him and stabbed him to death. They then also slit his throat and later poured petrol to burn his face,” Biswal said. “The accused (Shiv Kumar) confessed that after the murder they disposed off their cell phones and SIM cards in the jungle, which they had learnt by watching crime shows on television,” the DCP said.