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New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) A 23-year-old labourer, who allegedly bludgeoned his father-in-law to death for some money three months ago, was arrested here, police said today. Lallu Pasi, who was on the run, was apprehended from Nihal Vihar yesterday when he came there to take his wife Rekha with him, V Renganathan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), said. Pasi had allegedly murdered his father-in-law Heeral Lal on February 11. He had come to Delhi in search of job three years ago and later got married to Rekha. "Pasi was not going to work and his family was suffering from financial crisis. Rekha complained to her father who beat him up over this several times," Renganathan said. On February 11, Lallu went to borrow some money from Lal, who gave him Rs 150. Pasi saw notes of Rs 500 in Lal''s inner pocket and hatched a plan. "He arranged liquor and cooked fish at his home and invited Lal. Both had liquor and when he noted that Lal was inebriated, he took him out. He pushed him and threw stones over his head and his body. After that he took Rs 4000 from his pocket but left Rs 24 to avoid any suspicion," Renganathan said. He went back home and from the next day, started searching for Lal. He was very much present at the time of locating the body, identifying it and performing last rites.

However, investigators got suspicious over the "abnormal" behaviour of Pasi. "He ran away from his house. Later on family members of the deceased also suspected Pasi but they thought he was upset over the death of his father-in-law," he said. read more.