The Delhi Police has arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly killing a person over dispute of due payments in northwest Delhi's Madanpur Dabas.
The accused has been identified as Dilshad (27), a resident of Kasimpur village in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. Police said the accused used to work in a factory in Rohini's Pooth Khurd village. He was arrested in connection with the killing of Rajesh Kumar Gupta (40) on Sunday.
According to Jitendra Kumar Meena, the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Rohini district, Gupta had gone missing from the Prem Nagar area on Friday.
"Two days later, his body with injuries to the head and strangulation marks around the neck was found in the bushes in Madanpur Dabas Investigations revealed that Gupta was last seen with Dilshad," said the Additional DCP.
"Acting on a tip-off, Dilshad was arrested from near a college in sector-22, Rohini. During interrogation, police found that Gupta was running a chit fund company and Dilshad was its member. Dilshad had taken money from Gupta but was not paying the installments due to financial constraints," said the Additional DCP.
"Gupta started pressuring Dilshad on due payments. Frustrated with his constant demand of paying the money, Dilshad hatched a conspiracy with his nephew Salim to eliminate Gupta. Dilshad borrowed a mobile phone from his friend Feroz, a resident of Aligarh, and called Gupta for a meeting at Meer Vihar Sunday evening," said the Additional DCP.
"Dilshad also called his nephew Salim to reach the venue at the scheduled time. Both of them took Gupta to Madanpur Dabas where the three consumed alcohol. When Gupta was under the influence of alcohol, Dilshad and Salim hit him with bricks and subsequently strangled him," the Additional DCP said.