Four family members from Naveen Khatri’s family were arrested on Friday for allegedly destroying evidences and misleading the police. Khatri had allegedly killed his lover and hid her body for five days in the Model Town area of Delhi.
The persons arrested were Khatri’s father Rajkumar, his elder brother Sandeep, uncle Kishan Kumar and cousin Navin.
After murdering Aarzoo Singh, 23 year-old Naveen had hid her body it the ventilation shaft of his residence and married another woman during that period.
The four persons have been booked under Sections 201, 202, 203 (related to destruction of evidence and giving false information) and 212 (harbouring offender) of the IPC, DCP (North West) Vijay Singh said.
During the interrogation, it came to light that after killing Arzoo Singh Chauhan (21), Khatri confessed the incident to his father and brother.
Later, he also asked them to wash the blood stains on his car, in which he allegedly strangulated Arzoo on the night of 2 February and carried her body in the trunk, police said.
Soon Rajkumar and Sandeep allegedly sought help from Kishan Kumar and Navin.
In fact, it was Navin who took his cousin’s car out for servicing on 4 February, the day Khatri got married.
However, all of them tried to mislead the police throughout the probe claiming that they had no knowledge about the incident until they were confronted with certain evidence on Thursday night, police said.
They were arrested on Friday and presented in a court. Meanwhile, a court sent Khatri to 14 days of judicial custody.
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