Gurgaon: Poisoned drink to debtor? Lender booked

GURGAON: A moneylender was booked on Saturday for allegedly poisoning a businessman to death. The victim had gone to Rewari on Friday night to return the money he had borrowed, but was allegedly served a poisoned drink.
The businessman, Vijay Sharma, hails from Heli Mandi in Pataudi. On Friday, he went to Janaula village to return money he had borrowed from moneylender Kuldeep Yadav, and collect the property papers of his house in return.He later called his family and told them he suspected something had been added to the drink he was served at Yadav's house, and that he wasn't feeling well.
He added that Yadav took the money but didn't give return the papers.
Sharma's family reached Janaula bus stand where he was waiting for them. They then and rushed him to a private hospital in Rewari, where he died at 9pm.
Sharma's son Nitin told police the businessman had borrowed Rs 2 lakh from Yadav in exchange of mortgage on his house. Sharma was due to return the money, along with an additional Rs 2 lakh as interest (a total of Rs 4 lakh) for Yadav to return the house documents.
"The victim went to collect the documents from Yadav, who accepted the money but did not return the papers. It is alleged that he killed Sharma by serving him a poisoned drink," said ACP (crime) Rajesh Kumar.
A case was registered on Saturday on the basis of a complaint filed by Nitin.
The FIR has been filed against Yadav under sections 302 (murder) and 328 (Causing hurt by means of poison, etc) of the IPC.
Sharma's body has been sent for a postmortem. Police are waiting for the autopsy report to take further action.