Interrogation revealed that woman's husband, was relative of dead, died in January. (File)
Two persons, including a woman, were arrested for allegedly killing a 20-year-old man in northeast Delhi's Shastri Park area, police said today.
According to the police, the woman alleged that the man had raped her on several occasions and in order to take revenge, she killed him.
She took the victim to a spot near Bela Farm to watch the overflowing Yamuna river and with the help of a male friend overpowered him and stabbed him to death there, they said.
On Sunday around 8:34 am, a shirtless body with injury marks on the neck and abdomen was found in Bela Farm in the Shastri Park area, police said.
After analysing footage of CCTV cameras, two suspects were identified as a 20-year-old woman, a resident of Badayun in Uttar Pradesh, and Irfan (36), a resident of Shastri Park. Subsequently, they were caught, Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said.
Interrogation revealed that the woman's husband had died in January, he said.
''The woman told the police that the man had raped her many times and the sexual assault increased after her husband's death. She wanted revenge and freedom from the man,'' the DCP said.
The woman is a close friend of the wife of Irfan who agreed to help her to eliminate her alleged tormentor, the police officer said.
She took the victim to a spot near Bela Farm to watch the overflowing Yamuna. There, she and Irfan overpowered him and stabbed him to death. They then dumped the body behind a wall in in the farm, DCP Tirkey said.
The knife used in the commission of crime was recovered from near the spot, police said.
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