A head constable of the Delhi Police has been arrested by Crime Branch police two years after he allegedly killed a woman constable and hid her body in a drain in the Alipur area of the national capital, officials said on Sunday.
The police also dug up the drain and recovered the victim’s skeletons two years after the murder, based on information provided by the accused.
According to the police, the accused, identified as Surendra, was forcing the victim to marry him, despite being married himself.
When the victim refused to marry him, he took her to a deserted area in Delhi and strangled her to death. Later, he hid her body in a drain and covered it with rocks, they said.
Special CP (Crime Branch), Ravindra Yadav, said that the accused involved his brother-in-law and a friend in the conspiracy.
“His brother-in-law, Rovin, kept calling her family from multiple locations for two years on the instructions of the accused, Surendra. Rovin would tell the family that he was on the run with the victim and that there was a life threat to her. He would also make the family listen to her audio recording, making them believe that she was alive,” he said. However, the accused, Surendra, kept visiting the deceased’s family and even forced the police to search for her to divert suspicion from himself.
“The incident came to light when the family of the deceased informed the crime branch about the calls. After the crime branch traced the mobile phone of the caller, the brother-in-law of the accused and his friend, identified as Rajpal, were arrested.
