New Delhi: Police on Saturday said they had solved the murder case of a five-year-old, whose body was found in the Khajuri Khas area, in the capital and arrested three people in connection with the case.
Acting on information on Thursday, police recovered the body of the minor that had been stuffed into a gunny bag from a drain in Khajuri Khas and registered a case of murder and disappearance of evidence, Delhi Police said.
Scrutiny of several CCTV footage collected from the area showed a Maruti Eeco Van driving around suspiciously in the area.
The footage showed three people including a woman getting out of the van.
The team conducted a search, spotted the van and arrested the driver of said vehicle today.
The driver, identified as Pradeep Sharma (27), said that he along with his relative and a woman had used the vehicle to dump the body of the dead child. The other two implicated have been arrested.
The other two accused were identified as Dheeraj (22) and Anita (name changed) (22), who were engaged and lived together with Anita's two children from her first marriage.
The accused said that unable to bear the expenses of their children, they had on November 20 allegedly strangulated the five-year-old after he became unconscious following a beating, and dumped his body with the help of the accused, Pradeep.
A case under section 302 of IPC has been registered against the accused.
