Mumbai: Five people were arrested on Monday for allegedly kidnapping and killing a nonagenarian, who was stuffed in a refrigerator and taken away from his house in south Delhi’s posh Greater Kailash-1 area.
Kishan Khosla, a 91-year-old retired government employee, and his domestic help, Kishan, was missing since Sunday morning, police said. Several teams were formed to trace the duo and on Monday, the domestic help and four of his accomplices – Deepak Yadav, Pradeep Sharma, Sarvesh and Prabhudayal – were arrested, a senior officer said.
During interrogation, the domestic help revealed that he had strangulated his employer and had planned to kidnap the elderly man a month ago, police said, adding that the body of Kishan Khosla was found in a pit in Sangam Vihar.
The businessman son of Kishan Khosla found his mother, Saroj Khosla (87), unconscious when he visited the flat on Sunday morning and informed the police. Besides the refrigerator, jewelry and cash were also missing from the residence Kishan Khosla, the officer said. Saroj Khosla complained that their domestic help mixed some sedative in tea on Saturday night.
The domestic help belonged to Bihar and lived locally at Sangam Vihar, he said. The tempo used to carry the refrigerator was recovered from outside Pradeep Sharma’s house.
The refrigerator has also been found, police said. The security guards of the area claimed that they saw the domestic help carrying the fridge in a tempo along with his accomplices. He told the guards that he was taking the fridge for repair when they questioned him, they said.
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