New Delhi:
Two brothers have been arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping and killing a 50-year-old man at their Kirari Suleman Nagar, Prem Nagar-III, Delhi lodging on February 19, police stated on Wednesday.
Police stated the duo stuffed the person’s physique in a sack, transported it on their scooter and threw it within the Najafgarh drain, practically seven kilometres away from their residence. The decomposed physique of the sufferer was recovered close to Chandan Vihar in Nilothi Extension on Tuesday, 5 days after he went lacking.
Police recognized the brothers as Sonu, 24, and Mehboob Ali, 20, who runs a dhaba. The sufferer was recognized as Ajay Kumar Jha, a financier.
Throughout interrogation, it was revealed that the motive behind the homicide was monetary misery. The brothers had taken a mortgage of ₹4 lakh from Jha at a month-to-month curiosity of 10% round seven months in the past, however they have been unable to repay the principal quantity as paying ₹40,000 each month was tough for them. Thus, the brothers deliberate to kill Jha to keep away from repaying the mortgage, stated further commissioner of police (further CP) Rohini, Rajeev Ranjan.
Ranjan stated that on February 20, a lacking individual grievance was lodged at Aman Vihar police station by Jha’s brother Vijay Kumar Jha. He instructed police that Jha left his Rohini Sector 20 residence the earlier night on his bike and didn’t come again. A case of kidnapping or abduction for homicide or ransom was registered below Part 140 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on February 23, when the sufferer couldn’t be discovered.
Through the probe, a crew led by assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Ajay Vedwal and station home officer (SHO) Vijay Samaria scanned CCTV cameras of the routes the sufferer had taken on February 19 to hint him and his bike, stated police. Investigators discovered an individual with a muffled face parking Ajay’s bike at an deserted place in Prem Nagar on February 20 night. The decision element information of the sufferer have been additionally examined, stated the extra CP.
“Technical investigation revealed that Ajay’s cellphone’s location was in Kirari Suleman Nagar and he had final spoken to Sonu and Ali. Throughout their interrogation, they confessed to killing Ajay at their room with a meat cleaver on February 19, when he visited them to gather the month-to-month curiosity cash,” the extra CP added.
“They knew Ajay for the previous couple of years as he additionally provided polythene baggage to their dhaba,” stated the investigator.
