30 साल पुराने हत्याकांड में दूसरा गुनेगार गिरफ्तार।

Second culprit arrested in 30-year-old murder case

Police have made a second arrest in a 30-year-old murder case in which a man was allegedly killed in Narela after he refused to marry his daughter to a relative of the accused, officials said on Sunday. The accused, Daya Ram, now 60, was arrested from outside the National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases in Mehrauli. Police said Ram is a tuberculosis patient who had come to Delhi for treatment. In July this year, police had arrested the first accused in the case, Prem Narayan. Narayan is the cousin of the man who wanted to marry the daughter of deceased Shambhu Dayal.

Dayal's body was found in a field in Narela in September 1993. Police said Dayal had refused to marry his 18-year-old daughter to a man who was allegedly a drug addict. Following this, some of his family members stabbed him to death. Police said that in September this year, they learnt that one of the accused, Ram, lives in Kanpur and is about to come to Delhi.

DCP Amit Goyal (Crime Branch) said that a team led by Inspector Manmeet Malik found that Ram was suffering from TB. Several raids were conducted and it was found that he had recently come to Delhi's National Institute of TB and Respiratory Diseases Hospital, Mehrauli, for treatment. For two weeks, the team conducted recce and stayed outside the hospital. The team also obtained his medical records. When Ram was discharged on Saturday, the DCP said, the police said that the team arrested him. During interrogation, police learnt that after the murder, Ram never returned to his home and started working as a mason in a nearby village. An officer, on condition of anonymity, said, "He stopped using the phone and used to visit his family at odd hours near his village. For 30 years, he broke contact with most of his family members to evade the police.