19-year-old shoots brother in northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar

NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old shot his elder brother after he objected to him speaking to his sister-in-law. The incident occurred in northeast Delhi’s Karawal Nagar last Sunday. Police said the family tried to pass off the crime as natural death, but the priest, who had come to perform the last rites, noticed something amiss and alerted the cops.
According to police, the accused, Prashant Chand, was sleeping beside his brother Prem Shankar, when a fight broke out between them. Shankar had objected to Chand speaking to his sister-in law. On the day of the incident, the accused was speaking to her on the phone when Shankar got angry and slapped him twice. Angry over this, Chand whipped out a country-made pistol and shot him. Police are investigating how Chand managed to procure a pistol. At the time of the incident, Shankar’s wife was away to her maternal house.
The parents learnt about the murder in the morning when the mother went to the room and found Shankar in a pool of blood. To save Chand, the family cooked up a story that he fell off the bed and died. They also took the body for cremation where the priest noticed something suspicious. A case of murder was then registered.