Gurugram: 3 people arrested for strangling a PG operator over ₹ 10 lakh

Police have arrested three people, including two women, in connection with allegedly strangling a PG operator last week and dumping his body on a highway near Rewari. ₹On Monday, one of the officers said that one of them was in debt of Rs 10 lakh.

The accused have been identified as Sushama, 42, a resident of IMT Sector 1, Manesar, and Anil, 37, a native of Naurangbas Rajputana village in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri, police said. They were detained on Saturday. Another woman, Seema, from Dundahera village, also allegedly involved in the murder, was arrested on Sunday. On November 23, a man went to the police and reported the disappearance of his 52-year-old father.

The man said his father, Rajendra, left his house in Shikohpur village on November 22 to go to his PG in Sector 1 of IMT Manesar but never returned. When he went out to look for it, he found his car parked in the service lane of the highway near IMT Chowk. The car was locked and there was no one inside.

Following the complaint, an FIR was registered at Manesar Police Station and the case was transferred to Manesar Crime Branch. A team led by Sub-Inspector Lalit Kumar arrested Sushma, who runs a formwork company, and her friend Anil, whose suspected car police were used to dump Rajendra’s body.

According to police, Rajendra gave it to Sushma ₹10 lakh to invest in ‘committee’, a popular money pooling scheme. Sushma squandered the money for other purposes and when Rajendra asked for it, she replied that it was from Seema, police alleged. “On November 22, Sushma summoned Rajendra to her house in Sector 1 of IMT Manesar and strangled him after giving him intoxicants in tea. When he died, Seema was sent away. Sushma and Anil then parked Rajendra’s car in the service lane of the highway,” said a senior police officer.

According to the officer, they then put Rajendra’s body in Anil’s car and dumped it near the Rewari-Narnaul highway in Rewari. His body was found on the night of November 23.

The police said that the Hyundai Verna car in which the body was dumped, a gold chain and some documents related to Rajendra were seized from the accused. “To give the murder a form of suicide, the accused put sulfonamide tablets in the victim’s mouth and left the car abandoned on the road,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police Varun Dahiya.