A 30-year-old man strangled his friend to death after a fight between the two while they were drinking together in southwest Delhi’s Najafgarh area on Monday night, police said on Wednesday.
According to a senior police official, the man’s neck was first tied with a turban and then the accused identified as Naresh crushed his neck with a big stone until he died. Naresh alias Shera was arrested by police next day on Tuesday from his sister’s house in a village in Chhawla in southwest Delhi.
The incident happened when victim Sumit Sharma (28) had gone out with his three friends to have liquor. Sumit was a small time financier, said police.
Sumit’s body was found lying in a vacant plot the next morning by some passersby, said police. Sumit’s elder brother Amit told police that he had last seen his brother roaming with his three friends on Monday evening.
Amit further said when his brother didn’t return in the night he had called him on his phone and asked him to come back home soon.
When Sumit didn’t return even late in the night, his family members started searching for him in the area. On the statement of Amit, police registered a case
against Naresh, lavish and Suresh and started searching for the three.
Naresh told police that an argument had broken out between him and Sumit over a person. “The argument soon turned violent and in a fit of rage I killed him,” he said.