NEW DELHI, January 8: Private security guard Narender Kumar and cook Namita would not have been killed on the night of October 24 in Saket if they had not seen the killers of another security guard Pushp Raj. And Pushp Raj would not have been killed if he had not fallen in love with the same girl, who was a fellow security guard's lover, claim the Delhi Police.Almost three months after the murders, the south Delhi Police have arrested four persons - all of them originally from Pushp Raj's village in Bihar - in connection with the case. They are Sagar Singh, Pushp Raj's colleague; R.C. Verma a retired non-commissioned officer in the Army and Pushp Raj's lover Jyoti's father; and Verma's two sons Vijay and Ajay.According to DCP (south), P.K. Srivastava, Verma, who is also a security instructor and had helped Pushp Raj get the job as a security guard in Saket, was opposed to an alliance between his daughter and Pushp Raj. The Vermas and Pushp Raj's family are closely related.Sagar Singh found a natural ally in Verma. Srivastava says Sagar had known Jyoti for a long time, and wanted to marry her. And he saw Pushp Raj's sudden liking for the same girl as a stumbling block.Srivastava says the break through in the case followed the recovery of several letters exchanged between Radha and the two men. Jyoti used to sign as Kajal whenever she wrote to Sagar, but as Radha when she wrote to Pushp Raj. A diary recovered from Pushp Raj's belongings revealed further clues.Reconstructing the course of events, on the basis of statements given by the accused, Srivastava said Ajay, Vijay and Sagar met Pushp Raj at the F-Block apartments in Saket around 7.30 pm on October 24 and called him outside. They bludgeoned him to death near a garbage bin outside the complex.Namita, a cook, apparently witnessed the incident. She paid with her life. When the accused realised that Pushp Raj's reliever, Narender, had also seen them calling Pushp Raj outside, they returned to the complex and killed him with iron rods. They dumped Narender's body near a staircase outside one of the flats.Srivastava said that the group then took Pushp Raj's body to a deserted area in an auto rickshaw and set it afire. The charred body was found on October 25 in the evening, while Namita's body was recovered in the morning. Narender's body was found a couple of hours after the murder on the previous day.The DCP added that R.C. Verma hatched the conspiracy and had attempted to paint Pushp Raj as the accused by asking his sons to destroy Pushp Raj's body and plant his identity card and wallet near Namita's body.
