Revenge killing: Truck driver strangled for sexually abusing cleaning lady in Agra | Crime News

The arrested accused Sushil Kumar said he went to Nagpur on a truck with late Ajay Pathak as a cleaner. He alleged that Ajay Pathak did injustice to him. Therefore, he along with his son Vishnu alias Vinay planned to take revenge and kill him.

The two defendants in police custody. (TV9 Network)

New Delhi: In an apparent case of revenge killing, a cleaner in Agra beat up and strangled a truck driver for allegedly sexually abusing him. The man enlisted his son’s help by beating the truck driver with a stick and choking him with a towel. Both the father and son were arrested and sent to prison.

The deceased trucker, 42-year-old Ajay Pathak, was the son of Bhure Lal Pathak, a resident of Saket Colony, Aligarh Road, Kotwali Hathras Gate area. Last year, on July 16, he informed his family that he was going to Mathura and then went missing. When he could not find any trace of the deceased, his brother Vijay Pathak filed a missing person report at Kotwali Hathras Gate. Kotwali Hathras Gate police, Special Operation Group (SOG) and surveillance team swung into action and launched a hunt for Ajay Pathak.

On May 11, Kotwali Hathras Gate police with the help of CDR arrested accused Sushil Kumar and his son Vishnu alias Vinay, both residents of Hathras Gate police station of Gan Saket Colony.

While searching for the accused, police recovered the skeleton of deceased Ajay Pathak from a drain behind the shoe sole factory of KGN Traders Islam Nagar Tedi Bagiya in Agra. The policemen also recovered a stick and a towel from the spot after being led to the spot by the accused.

They killed him and threw his body into the drain

The arrested accused Sushil Kumar told police that he went to Nagpur on a truck with late Ajay Pathak as a cleaner. He alleged that Ajay Pathak did injustice to him. Therefore, he along with his son Vishnu alias Vinay planned to take revenge from Ajay Pathak. On July 16, 2023, Ajay Pathak had come to KGN Traders Islam Nagar Tedi Bagiya Agra to work with Sushil Kumar. Ajay Pathak stayed with Sushil Kumar and worked in Agra for about 15 days.

On July 28, 2023, Sushil Kumar called his son Vishnu aka Vinay. And on August 2 last year, the father-son duo took Ajay Pathak to the roof of KGN Traders at night and killed him by first hitting him on the head and then strangling him with a towel. They put his body in a plastic bag and threw it down the drain. They dug a pit and buried the body with the plastic bag in the drain. They hid the stick and towel in a room on the roof of KGN Traders in Agra.

Rampravesh Rai, CO City, pointed out that a missing complaint has been lodged against Ajay Pathak at the police station. Kotwali Hathras Gate police, Special Operation Group (SOG) and surveillance team were deployed to search for the missing person.