Gurugram: Couple found murdered after house party, friend arrested

GURUGRAM: Wednesday evening began with a friend coming home to visit BPO executive Vikram Singh and his wife Jyoti in Dundahera. On Thursday morning, the couple was found murdered, Vikram in the hall of the second-floor house, and Jyoti near the gates to the terrace. When a police team arrived, the visitor, Abhinav Agarwal, was still in house, seated next to Vikram’s body. He was arrested and is the prime suspect in the probe. The main witness is the couple’s seven-year-old son, who was found sitting dazed in the one of the rooms when the cops arrived.
Vikram (35), from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, had been working at a call centre in Kapashera for seven years. Eight years ago, he got married to Jyoti (32). The couple had been living at Dundahera on the second floor of a three-storey house, barely 200m from the Udyog Vihar police station, in the crammed neighbourhood with their son and Vikram’s brother, Shailendra (25). Vikram was the eldest of seven siblings.
On Wednesday evening, Vikram’s friend and former colleague Abhinav (33) called on them. Vikram asked Shailendra to go to their cousin’s place, two houses away on the same street, for the night. Abhinav and Vikram, meanwhile, caught up over drinks on the terrace. “My nephew told me later that Abhinav did not drink at all. He made Vikram drink,” alleged Shailendra.
After a while, everyone called it a night. “Around 4am, we heard noises from the house and rushed to find out what was happening. Our neighbours and the landlord were already there,” Shailendra said.
Ajit, the landlord’s son, lives on the ground floor. He was among the first on the scene. “We were woken up by loud noises on the second floor. We rushed upstairs,” he said. There was blood all over the stairs going up to the terrace. Beer bottles were strewn across the floor of the terrace. The door was wide open.
Abhinav made no attempt to escape. He was handed over to the police around 4.30am, after which he was detained and arrested by evening. “He was a frequent visitor to the Singh house,” Ajit said. “Vikram had given Abhinav Rs 1.5 lakh more than two years ago for some scheme Abhinav was selling at the time. My brother would keep asking for the money to be returned and Abhinav would always be evasive. He couldn’t come up with the money,” Shailendra said.
The couple was taken to the civil hospital in Sector 10, where doctors declared them brought dead. “Vikram had four stab wounds on his body – two on the chest, which were fatal, and one each on a shoulder and an elbow. Jyoti had two stab wounds on her chest,” Dr Deepak Mathur, who conducted the postmortem, said. “The injuries suggest Vikram resisted the attack. A big knife with a blade about 4-5cm wide was used in the crime,” he added.
A case has been registered against Abhinav under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code. “We have collected forensic evidence from the crime scene and investigation is on,” ACP (Udyog Vihar) Biren Singh said.
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