Yesterday,we published a report about the death of a final year Undergraduate student who was studying at Ram Lal Anand College.Police claims to have solved the murder case and said the the student was killed by a 25 year old man he met on a dating app.
On Wednesday night, the body of the 21-year-old DU student was found in a drain in Dwarka’s Sector 13.
The victim was killed by a man named Ishrat Ali,25,on the night of 22nd March 2018,said Ajay Chaudhary,Joint Commissioner of Police (New Delhi).
The officer said the deceased met Ishrat,who works as a sampling manager for export houses,through a ‘dating app.’
“During our investigation, we found the victim had met Ishrat thrice in 10 days before the murder. On the afternoon of the incident, the two friends had met at a food joint near Dwarka Sector 13, where his body was found. Ishrat confessed that on the night of March 22, he had a fight with the victim over some issue after which he killed the victim with a hammer” said Chaudhary, adding that police are probing what exactly triggered Ishrat to murder his friend.
“He called the victim’s father over WhatsApp. He demanded a ransom and tried to pass off the case as kidnapping to mislead investigators,” he added.