A 38-year-old man, assisted by his 15-year-old nephew, stabbed to death a man he suspected of having an affair with his wife in north-east Delhi’s Bhajanpura. The accused was arrested and the minor was apprehended from Aligarh on Saturday.
Nephew involved too
The police said the incident happened around 10 p.m. on Friday when Vinod Kumar and his nephew invited Mohd. Shanu into their home in Subhash Mohalla and then proceeded to stab him multiple times with a knife.
According to the police, Kumar’s wife had been in an illicit relationship with the victim for a few months.
“Kumar said he got to know about the affair a month ago and sent his wife to a village in Uttar Pradesh. On Friday, Shanu came to check on her and the two asked him to come inside. They got into a fight and the duo stabbed him 20-25 times,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-East) Ajit Kumar Singla.
Fled to Aligarh
The two then wrapped Shanu’s body in a quilt and dumped it in one of the rooms in the house and fled to Aligarh.
The police received a call from a neighbour, who had heard a man shouting for help. “The body was found inside a locked room,” said Mr. Singla.
The police have registered a case under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC.
