27-yr-old arrested for killing man in Madanpur Dabas

A 27-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing a person over dispute about due payments in northwest Delhi's Madanpur Dabas, police said.

The accused -- Dilshad (27), a resident of Kasimpur village in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh -- worked in a factory in Pooth Khurd village, they said.

He was arrested in connection with the killing of Rajesh Kumar Gupta (40) on Sunday, police said.

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, they said.

Investigations revealed that Gupta was last seen with Dilshad, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, Dilshad was arrested from near a college in sector-22, Rohini, said Jitendra Kumar Meena, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (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," he said.

"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," the officer said.

Dilshad borrowed a mobile phone from his friend Feroz, a resident of Aligarh, and called Gupta for a meeting at Meer Vihar Sunday evening, Meena said.

Dilshad also called his nephew Salim to reach the venue at the scheduled time, he added.

Both of them took Gupta to Madanpur Dabas where the three consumed alcohol, the officer said.

When Gupta was under the influence of alcohol, Dilshad and Salim hit him with bricks and subsequently strangled him, he added.