New Delhi-- Two days after 32-year-old Asma Javed, an Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) alumna, was found dead in her flat, Uttar Pradesh police on Friday arrested her friend Javed Ul Hasan on the charge of murdering her. Hasan was produced before a magistrated court and remanded to judicial custody.
Police said Hasan, a property dealer, and Asma knew each other for over a year and had physical relations.
“Hasan confessed to the killing after we questioned him at length. We arrested him on Thursday night. He said he objected to her being in contact with some people. They had a verbal spat which escalated and he strangled her. He said he did not mean to kill her,” said DIG Govind Agarwal.
He said that on May 13, when Asma’s body was found in a rented flat of Al Hamd building near the AMU campus, her tablet was missing from the apartment. “The phone was recovered after the accused told us that he put it in a plastic bag and hid it in some shrubs near Naqbi Park,” Agarwal said.
Police said that on May 8 Hasan and Asma argued when the former tried to look through her tablet. She threw the tablet on the floor and it cracked. The same evening, when Asma returned from Hathras, where she was pursuing a basic teachers’ certificate course, Hasan met her at the bus stand and took her home on his bike. After coming home, they had another showdown that ended with Hasan strangling her, police said. Police said that after strangling Asma, Hasan locked the flat from outside and threw her tablet, two SIM cards and keys to the flat in the shrubbery.
He later used Asma’s ATM card to withdraw Rs 55,000 in all between May 8 and May 12.
Indian Express
