Five people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old man in north west Delhi’s Inderlok, police said on Monday.
On January 7, a PCR call was received at Sarai Rohilla Police Station that there was a dead body wrapped in a bedsheet and tied with ropes in Tikona Park. Police said the deceased has been identified as Abhishek, a resident of Pratap Nagar, who had injury marks on his neck and hand.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Sagar Singh Kalsi said that the accused – Afzal Ansari, 45, Sajal Ansari, 38, Rashid Ansari, 30, Mohammad Israfil, 20 and Mohd. Akbar Ansari, 27, was arrested on Sunday.
“During investigation, it emerged that the victim was having some dispute with the accused who was running a bakery. The police team reached the bakery and noticed that the bedsheets and polythene bags present in the bakery were resembling the bedsheets and polythene bags in which the victim’s body was found wrapped,” Mr Kalsi said.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the accused had bought two stolen laptops from Abhishek for ₹5,000 about a year and a half ago. Since then, Abhishek started extorting money from them on several occasions by threatening them that he would report to the police about the purchase of the stolen laptop, police said, adding that the victim managed to extort Rs 1 lakh from them.
Abhishek had visited the bakery on January 6 and demanded Rs 20,000 from them. The accused then hatched a plan to kill her to stop her blackmailing and extortion. The accused took Abhishek to an adjoining room and strangled him to death, adding that they wrapped his body in a bedsheet, placed it in a polythene bag and dumped it at Tikona Park, Inderlok, the officer said.
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