New Delhi: A Flipkart delivery agent was strangulated to death with a charger by two customers who wanted to rob him of phones worth Rs 90,000.
After committing the heinous crime, the accused stuffed the body of the delivery boy into his own bag and dumped it in a canal in Lucknow.
A missing report for the delivery boy named Bharat Kumar was registered on September 26. After a long investigation, police finally cracked the case and on Tuesday arrested Akash Sharma, who confessed to the crime.
The other accused named Gajanan is on the run.
Reporting about the crime, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP, East) Shashank Singh said, “Our initial investigation threw up several suspicious things and we got details of Kumar’s deliveries for the day from Flipkart, including the undelivered orders. We questioned several people based on this information and then got to one Akash Sharma, who has confessed to killing Kumar along with his associate Gajanan.”
“When Kumar reached the house for delivery, Sharma and Gajanan got greedy and thought of getting the phones and the other items that he was supposed to deliver to other people without paying any money. They asked Kumar to come in and then strangled him with the cord of a laptop charger lying nearby. They stuffed his body into his own Flipkart bag and then dumped it in the Indira Nagar canal,” said Singh.
“The police, teams from the national and state disaster response forces and local divers are trying to locate the body. Gajanan is on the run and he will also be arrested soon,” he added.
The accused had used the phone of one of their friends to order two cellphones – a Vivo V40 Pro and a Google Pixel 7 pro – costing around Rs 90,000 on Flipkart.