A 24-year-old woman and her brother were arrested on Thursday for allegedly battering her husband and father-in-law to death in Roshan Nagar over her extramarital affair, the police said.
The siblings were produced before a court, which remanded them in four-day police custody.
The bodies of Siya Ram (65) and his son Vinod (25) were dumped separately on Wednesday morning. A case was registered at Sarai Khawaja police station and investigation in the case was handed over to the DLF Crime Branch unit.
Preliminary investigation led the police to suspect the role of Vinod’s wife Pooja behind the murders. She confessed to the murders during interrogation.
Pooja had eloped with Vinod nearly 10 years ago but had lately developed a fondness for her relative Ajay. Vinod came to know about this and would fight with her often. He allegedly did not allow her to wear clothes of her choice and also stopped her from going outside the village or to her father’s house.
Vinod caught Pooja speaking to Ajay on the phone on Sunday. Following this, she was beaten by her husband and father-in-law.
Furious, Pooja allegedly hatched a conspiracy with her brother Khempal to kill the two men. The siblings battered Siya Ram with a griddle and strangled him with a muffler around 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday. The siblings then put his body on the bed, covered it with a bed sheet and put a mosquito net around it. After Vinod returned home drunk, Pooja and Khempal allegedly bludgeoned him to death in his sleep with a boulder. They dumped the bodies separately in the colony outside, returned home and hid their bloodstained clothes in the bushes.
The murders came to fore when locals spotted the bodies on Wednesday morning and informed the police. Vinod and Pooja have two children.
