Gurugram: The suspended train officer was arrested here on Saturday for allegedly strangling his 66-year-old brother-in-law, police said here.
Nirbhay Singh was found dead in his car on Thursday night, they said.
The defendant was identified as Bharat, was detained after complaints from family members who died, they said.
The deceased was a resident of South City-1, and previously run a business in Qatar, police said, added that he had settled in Gurugram just a few years ago.
According to his wife, Singh had gone to meet relatives at 6:30 p.m.
but did not return until late at night.
“When he didn’t get back late at night, my daughter-in-law told me that he had gone to drop his brother-in-law Bharat to the metro station.” When I called my husband, he said he was with Bharat and Will.
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But after a while when I contacted him again, my husband did not answer the phone, “he said in his complaint, according to the police.
He said he then called Bharat, who told him that her husband had gone to the house ten minutes ago.” But afterwards some time I found my husband’s car near our house and found him lying in the front seat of the car.
I suspect my husband was strangled by Bharat, “said the woman to the police.
The family rushed to a private hospital where the doctor stated he was taken dead and the police were told.
Following the complaint FIR was registered in Bharat under Section 302 (punishment for murder) code Indian crime at the Sector Police Office 40 on Friday.
“We questioned Bharat and had taken him to police detention three days.
This motive has not been ascertained because the defendant changed his statement.
The active probe and images will be immediately cleaned, “said Surender Kumar, investigative officers.