Delhi man kills schizophrenic son, lured him to shipping container on pretext of doctor visit

A 64-year-old man and his associate have been arrested for allegedly killing his 38-year-old son, whose body, with severe injuries, was found inside an abandoned shipping container near the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in south Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj on August 22, police said on Saturday.

Police said the accused first smashed the victim’s head with a stone and then strangled him.

The 64-year-old disclosed that he killed his son, Gul Hasan, with the help of his 49-year-old associate, as Hasan has been suffering from mental health-related problems and schizophrenia, police said.

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The accused lured Hasan to the abandoned container on the pretext of taking him to a doctor for treatment and killed him, a police officer said.

Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Vineet Kumar said that on August 23 at 7.13 am, the Kalindi Kunj police station received information regarding an unidentified man’s body found inside a container, lying abandoned adjacent to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) boundary wall on the eastern side of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway.

Upon reaching the scene, police found the body with a head injury in a pool of blood.

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A case of murder was registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and four teams led by assistant commissioner of police (ACP) Sarita Vihar, Anil Kumar Sharma, were formed to probe the case.

“From CCTV analysis, the movement of the victim was traced, showing him in the company of two people proceeding towards the scene of the crime and the suspects returning alone without the victim. The suspects were subsequently traced to a stitching factory in Govindpuri, south Delhi leading to their arrest and identification of the victim,” said the DCP.

Police said they were interrogating the accused further to establish the motive of the crime and sequence of events leading to the murder.

The officer said police are also waiting for the post-mortem report analysis.

Karn Pratap Singh has been writing on crime, policing, and issues of safety in Delhi for almost a decade. He covers high-intensity spot news, including terror strikes, serial blasts and security threats in the national capital. Read More