Youth beaten to death at correction home

New Delhi:An inmate of a drug de-addiction centre in southeast Delhi’s Tughalakabad was beaten to death allegedly by the institute’s caretaker, the police said on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the police found Amit Bidhuri (29) dead with multiple contusions on lower part of his body.   

According to police, caretaker Sumit Arora (30) came to the institute along with two of his friends in a drunken condition around 11 pm on Monday night. He then abused the inmates and beat some of them.

“He saw the victim lying on the ground. The victim was in a drunken stupor. He passed stool, the foul smell of which enraged the accused. At this he started beating the victim with a wooden rod,” DCP (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said.

After beating the victim, Arora went off to sleep on a nearby bed. When he woke up in the morning, he realised that the victim had died and he ran away from the spot, the police said.  

The owner of the centre was informed by the inmates about the incident on Tuesday morning. The police was subsequently informed.