A day after a DU student was found murdered in Model Town area, police are probing the role of a person, who is suspected to have helped her lover to commit the crime, and are searching for his father who is untraceable since the killing came to light.
"The accused, Naveen Khatri, has disclosed a person's name during interrogation claiming that the individual helped him in dumping the woman's body. The matter is being probed," Joint Commissioner of Police (North) Sanjay Singh said today.
Meanwhile, the police are also searching for Khatri's father. "He (Khatri's father) will be questioned once we track him down," Singh said, adding that Khatri was produced in court, which sent him to three days police custody.
A police source said that Khatri's father, who left his house by the time the incident came to light yesterday, was released on parole last year. He was sent to prison in connection with a neighbour's murder case.
Arzoo Singh Chauhan (21), a student of Lakshmibai College under the University of Delhi, was killed allegedly by her lover, Naveen Khatri (23), who hid her body for five days and married another woman during the period.
The incident came to light yesterday when Arzoo's body was found in a ventilation shaft at Khatri's residence in Gurmandi locality, which comes under the jurisdiction of Model Town police station in northwest Delhi, following which Khatri was arrested.
Khatri allegedly strangulated his girlfriend Arzoo, who lived in the same neighbourhood, on Tuesday and dumped her body in the shaft of his building. Khatri later got married to another woman on Thursday.
Today the police continued questioning several members of Khatri's family and guests who had come to attend his wedding on Thursday, to check if any of them had knowledge of the crime. They are also investigating if evidence in connection with the case were destroyed, a senior official said.
"We are analysing phone records of the deceased woman and the accused. We are also collecting additional evidence to finalise a proper sequence of events in connection with the case," he said, adding that Arzoo's postmortem report is still awaited.
According to the police, Khatri met Arzoo outside Lakshmibai College on Tuesday and both went around the city distributing invitation cards for Khatri's marriage. They together went to the residences to three persons to distribute cards.
It is suspected that the couple had a heated argument, following which Khatri allegedly strangulated Arzoo with a stole in southwest Delhi's Nangal Dewat area, shoved her body in the trunk of his car and brought it to his residence.
Arzoo's parents had lodged a missing complaint on Tuesday evening and when the woman could not be found for days, a case of abduction was registered on Saturday.
After preliminary investigation and Arzoo's relatives constantly raising suspicion over Khatri's family, police questioned Khatri yesterday and he "confessed" to the crime, police said.
