NEW DELHI: A 32-year-old vagabond was apprehended in north Delhi’s Sabzi Mandi area for allegedly beating an elderly man to death, police said on Saturday. According to a senior police officer, the incident occurred on Friday around 2.45am in the Barafkhana neighborhood of Sabzi Mandi. The elderly man was allegedly being beaten by a vagabond. The victim, Jyoti Prasad, 70, was taken to Hindu Rao hospital but passed away there around 3.30am, the officer said. He said the argument happened at Y-point, which is close to Ram Dwara Temple in the Sabzi Mandi area. Badal, a vagabond, was arrested from Roshanara Park for allegedly thrashing the Kabir Basti resident. At the time of his arrest, Badal was wearing a bloodied vest, which was seized, the DCP said. Badal revealed that he is a vagabond and lives on footpath in the Ghantaghar area and also at Y-point near Ram Dwara Mandir, Malkaganj, police said. According to police, Badal on Friday had had a row with some people near Ghantaghar after which he left for Y-point near Jhandewalan. He found an old man sitting there and told him to leave, but when he didn’t, he beat him with fists and later with a stick which was lying there, police said. Badal was caught and thrashed by some passersby for beating the old man, but he managed to escape, they said. After the incident, he kept roaming in the Kashmere gate area and later returned to Sabzi Mandi where he came to know that the old man had died, they said.(With inputs from PTI)
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