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NEW DELHI, NOV. 21 . A tutor and his accomplice, who allegedly tried to kidnap one of his students from Najafgarh on October 13 for ransom and murdered him while trying to overpower him, were arrested by the South-West Delhi police on Saturday. The police have exhumed the body of the deceased, which was buried inside a house and the burial place cemented. According to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West Delhi), Deependra Pathak, Jaglal Prashad, a resident of Najafgarh, lodged a complaint alleging that his son, Pawan, a Class X student, had gone missing. The next day, he received a call in which the caller claimed that Pawan was in his custody, following which the case was converted to that of kidnapping. Investigations revealed that Pawan used to regularly visit his tenant, Ashok Vishwakarma, who had been living there for the past seven years. The police found that Ashok had gone missing after the incident. Suspecting that he was involved in the kidnapping, they launched a hunt for him. In the meantime, Jaglal received another call on November 20 in which the caller threatened to kill Pawan if Rs. 1 lakh was not paid to him. He asked Jaglal to make the payment at Sai Baba Mandir the same day. Accordingly, the police laid a trap and arrested the caller, later identified as Ashok, and his accomplice, Angad Singh. During interrogation, the duo confessed to having kidnapped Pawan. Ashok revealed that he had been facing financial crisis, due to which he planned to kidnap Pawan. On October 13, Pawan went to meet him when Angad, who was allegedly in an inebriated state, and Ashok made him eat food laced with a sedative, "dhatura". But it did not work after which they gave a heavy dose of another sedative. Taking him to be unconscious, the accused were tying up Pawan's legs upon which he offered resistance and raised an alarm. The accused panicked and in a bid to make him unconscious, Angad ended up strangling Pawan with an iron chain. The duo then wrapped Pawan's body in a quilt, put it in a gunny bag, and transported it to the house of one Tara Chand at Najafgarh in a rickshaw. Then they allegedly buried the body there and cemented the place to evade detection. At their instance, the police have exhumed the body for forensic examination. The police said Ashok's family is well settled in Lucknow. He had come to the Capital in search of a job but could not get a big breakthrough.
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