NEW DELHI: A

man

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with his

decided to

him and make it look like an

. He then behaved like a well-wisher by helping the woman deal with grief. When confronted by police, he tried to cook up a story that the man was accidentally run over by a train. However, after cops spotted bloodstains on his clothes, he confessed to having hit the man with a stone and dragged him to the railway tracks.

The accused man, Kulkesh, used to work in a factory with the victim, Dalbir. They stayed in Mohan Garden in west Delhi and got friendly around a year ago. Kulkesh started visiting Dalbir’s house and tried to impress his wife, Pooja, with gifts. When Dalbir got to know about this, he stopped Kulkesh from meeting her.

On Monday night, Kulkesh got to known that Pooja had gone to Bahadurgarh to attend a wedding. He called Dalbir near the railway tracks for a chat. After sometime, he asked Dalbir to wait at a secluded spot while he relieved himself. He then picked up a rock and threw it at Dalbir’s head.

When Dalbir fell unconscious, Kulkesh dragged him on the railway tracks. After a train had run over Dalbir’s body, he called the police to inform that his friend had met with an accident on the tracks. Police found Dalbir’s body parts scattered along the railway tracks for a kilometre. After Pooja rushed back, Kulkesh started consoling her.

While scanning through Dalbir’s phone calls, police found that Kulkesh was the last person to call him. “When we questioned him, he gave contradictory replies and couldn’t explain the bloodstains on his clothes. He later admitted to having murdered his friend,” said DCP (west) Monika Bhardwaj.

Kulkesh told police that he had been trying to woo Pooja, but she kept refusing his proposals saying she couldn’t leave her husband. Kulkesh then decided to kill Dalbir and marry her.