A father and his friend were arrested for allegedly killing the son in Delhi (Representative image)
NEW DELHI: A 64-year-old man and his friend have been arrested for allegedly killing the man’s son by assaulting him with a stone and strangling him in southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj, police said. The accused have been identified as Talukdar Ansari, 64, and Mohammad Wasim alias Akram, 49. The case came to light on August 23, when police received information at around 7.13pm about the body of an unidentified man lying inside an abandoned container near the NTPC wall in Kalindi Kunj.
The deceased was identified as Gul Hasan, whom police said was Ansari’s son. Police said Ansari claimed that Hasan had been suffering from mental health problems, which the police press release described as schizophrenia. Police said they subsequently recovered, at the instance of the accused, the concrete stone allegedly used in the assault, blood-stained clothes allegedly worn during the incident, and a cotton string or rope allegedly used for strangulation.
Both worked as tailors. Police personnel who reached the location found the body inside the container.
A murder case was subsequently registered and an investigation launched. Joint CP Vijay Kumar formed teams under the supervision of DCP Vineet Kumar.