A 64-year-old man was arrested along with his associate for allegedly killing his 38-year-old son whose body with a severe head injury and ligature marks around the neck was found inside an abandoned shipping container near the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in south Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on the night of August 23, police said on Saturday.
Police said the accused’s interrogation revealed that after luring the victim to the container, Wasim allegedly hit his head with a stone, following which Ansari also inflicted blows upon him. Upon reaching the scene, police found the body lying inside the container and an injury on the victim’s head from which a substantial amount of blood oozed. Police scanned CCTV cameras installed around the crime scene and adjoining locations, establishing camera-to-camera movement trail of the victim, followed by verification and interrogation of suspects. Thereafter, they allegedly strangled him using an improvised cloth made from waste clothes, resulting in his death.
The victim appeared to be dead almost 24 hours before the discovery of the body; ₹ 70 cash and some tobacco were found in his pocket. Because the victim was suffering from mental health-related problems and was a “schizophrenic, the arrested father, identified as Talukdar Ansari, disclosed that he killed his son with the help of his associate, Mohammad Wasim alias Akram (49),.
Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Vineet Kumar said that on August 23 at 7.13am, the Kalindi Kunj police station received information regarding an unidentified man’s body found inside a container, locally known as “Bablu Ka Container”, which was lying abandoned for years adjacent to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) boundary wall in the eastern side of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. A blood-stained stone was found near the body, police said. Accordingly, a case of murder was registered at the police station, and at least four teams led by assistant commissioner of police (ACP), Sarita Vihar, Anil Kumar Sharma, were formed under the overall supervision of joint commissioner of police (southern range) Vijay Kumar to identify the victim and arrest killers, the DCP said. Ansari and Wasim allegedly lured the victim to the abandoned container on the excuse of taking him to a doctor for treatment and killed him, a police officer said, quoting the disclosures of the arrested men. The two then left the body inside the container, police said.
