According to police, a body with the face smashed was found by a constable near the Government Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in the Bindapur police station area on the intervening night of April 1-2.
The deceased was identified as Ram Bahadur, native of Sitapur in Uttar Pradesh who worked as a barber, said RA Sanjeev, DCP of south-west district.
Police said they have now nabbed one Raju for allegedly being involved in the murder while efforts are on to arrest a suspect identified as Babloo. Babloo, said to be Raju's brother-in-law, was an associate in the crime, police said.
However, the accused approached Ram Bahadur to call off the proposed wedding saying that Sonu was already married to a kin of his.
But as Ram Bahadur refused to do so, Raju made a plan to kill him. He met Ram Bahadur on the fateful night at Tooda Mandi in Najafgarh and invited him to a party at Matiala Road where he killed him using a stick and an iron rod, the DCP said.
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