Another macabre murder in Delhi

AS the investigation into the brutal Shraddha Walker’s murder case is still underway, the Crime Branch of Delhi Police have cracked a similar crime in the eastern part of New Delhi.

Officers arrested a young man in East Delhi’s Pandav Nagar for allegedly murdering his step-father with the help of his mother at their residence in Trilokpuri. The accused have been identified as Poonam and Deepak while the deceased as Anjan Das, who married Poonam in 2017 after her ex-husband died in 2016.

They chopped the body into 10 pieces after killing the man and these pieces were stored in a fridge and disposed of over several days.

The woman and her son confessed to the grisly crime, police said.

On May 30, the accused made Anjan drink liquor and mixed sleeping pills in it. Then they slit his throat and left the body in the home for a day.