Police have arrested a 28-year-old gym owner, who allegedly shot dead a journalist earlier this week at south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area. He was arrested from Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, a Delhi Police official said on Friday. The accused, Rinku had allegedly shot dead Hardeep Singh who worked as the editor of a journal published by the Inter-University Accelerator Centre, an institute run by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The incident took place on Monday after an altercation had broken out between the two, over Singh objecting to loud music played by Rinku in Kishangadh locality. Rinku owns a gym on the ground floor of the building in which Singh lived, police said.
After the incident, Rinku went absconding.