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

Police have arrested three people, including two women, for allegedly strangling a PG operator and dumping his body on the highway near Rewari last week. ₹One of them had a debt of Rs 10 lakh, an officer said on Monday.

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

The man said that his father, Rajendra, left his home in Shikohpur village on November 22 to go to his PG in Sector 1 in IMT Manesar but never returned. When he went looking for him, he found his car parked in a service lane. along the highway near IMT Chowk. The car was locked, no one was in it.

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 shuttering company, and her acquaintance Anil, whose car police suspect was used in dumping Rajendra’s body.

According to the police, Rajendra had given Sushma ₹10 lakh to invest in a ‘commission’, a popular money pool scheme. Sushma squandered the money in other pursuits and when Rajendra asked for it, she told him it was with Seema, police said. “On November 22, Sushma called Rajendra to her house in Sector-1 IMT Manesar and strangled him after giving him intoxicants in tea. When he died, Seema was sent back. After this, Sushma and Anil parked Rajendra’s car on a service lane along the highway,” a senior police officer said.

According to the officer, they then placed 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 Hyundai Verna car used in disposing of the body, a gold chain and some documents related to Rajendra were recovered from the suspect’s possession, police said. “To make the murder a form of suicide, the accused put sulfa tablets in the victim’s mouth and left his car abandoned on the road,” Assistant Commissioner of Police Varun Dahiya said.