Dead NRI shot pornographic videos of women

Daljeet Singh alias Gauri (48), Praveen Yadav (23) and a minor were nabbed for allegedly killing NRI Harinder Jit Singh on November 15 at Shivaji Enclave area in West Delhi here.

According to the police, the deceased, whose family is based in Ontario, Canada, had a video camera installed in his apartment and made pornographic videos of women who visited him.

"One of his victims, who was also in a relationship with Gauri, told him that the NRI has made an objectionable video of her which she wanted to be retrieved and destroyed as he was exploiting her using the clip," said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Ranvir Singh.

In a bid to fetch the video clip, Gauri sought the help from Pravin and his minor accomplice promising them Rs 10,000 each. The trio had on November 15 gone to Singh's house and overpowered him. They then tied him up with a 'chunni' in the bathroom, gagged him with a piece of cloth and ransacked the house.

They then fled the spot with the valuables such as camera, mobile phone, binocular handycam, purse, diaries etc. Gauri also removed Singh's 'kada' from the wrist. On the same day, he also paid Rs 10,000 each to both of them for fulfilling the promise and shared the articles, police said.

The incident came to light when at around 8pm on the same day police received a phone call about a body lying in Shivaji Enclave area. On investigation, they recovered several pornographic CDs at Singh's residence.

The police team seized a camera, binoculars, mobile phone, wallet and around 30 credit cards from the arrested trio. During interrogation, they told police that they were also motivated to loot the deceased who had recently sold a flat and there was a possibility of cash at his residence, police said.

"It seems that they had not planned to kill the NRI but as he was old, he died of choking because of the cloth which was thrust in his mouth to gag him. Postmortem report is awaited and further investigations are on," said a police official.