Body of an 18-year-old girl with her face disfigured was found lying near a ply factory on Surakhpur Road in Najafgarh area in 2008. Unable to identify the teen and her killers, the local police shelved the file under the pile of “Untraced Cases”.
However, not one to give up the Crime Branch with the help of a tattoo on her arm established the identity of the girl and thereafter managed to nab her murderer. “With the help of a tattoo which had the initial ‘A’ on the arm of the victim, we managed to establish the identity of the girl,” said police sources.
“Bijender alias Rinku, the main accused and his accomplice Rahul was arrested by the core team of the Crime Branch after one of our informers gave us a tip off last month that he had some clue about the whereabouts of Rahul,” Bhisham Singh, DCP (Crime)
On April 11, our team received information that Rahul, would come to the BDO Office, Najafgarh, following which, we apprehended him. With Rahul’s assistance, we arrested Bijender from Balbir Vihar.
On interrogation Bijender revealed that he was in a live-in relationship with Arti. On the night of September 23, a argument ensued between them and he strangled her.