Subhash's body was found inside a sack on the roadside two-and-a-half kilometres away from the parlour on the Karawal Nagar Road by the police at 9.30 p.m. on Monday. Both had been strangled to death. While Tony's relatives identified Subhash' body at the mortuary, his mother, Sarla, is yet to be told of her husband's death.

Tony's aunt, Sharda, said that the boy used to sleep with his father at the parlour and came home to Bhagirathi Vihar only at 6 in the morning every day. When Tony did not come home today, Vishaal, his elder brother, went to the shop to enquire. He found the shutter locked and went to meet his father's sister Chandrawati. But Chandrawati told him that neither Subhash nor Tony had visited her in the morning. Chandrawati then accompanied Vishaal to the parlour and had the lock broken open. The body of the boy was found inside a video game box. He had been strangled to death.

A generator and several cassettes of video games were missing.

The video game parlour was shifted to its present venue at Gali 10 in Mustafabad from its previous location at Gali 6 only on February 6, after residents near the former location demanded its closure. The residents' claimed that the parlour was a bad influence on the children who spent all their time there. Vishaal, who had taken food for his father and brother in the evening on Monday, did not meet Subhash. Tony told him that their father had gone with a stranger to see some video game he was interested in buying.

Subhash had left at around 7 p.m. His body was discovered at 9.30 p.m. by the police. According to Chandrawati and Sharda, Subhash had also gone to Gali 6 during the day on Monday and had met old acquaintances there.

Many people staying near the parlour in Mustafabad were taken by the police for questioning on Tuesday night. ``What would our men know? They have been out at work all day,'' the women pleaded with the Gokulpuri SHO as several male residents were being taken to the station.

``This is how the people here cooperate. And then they say that the police is doing nothing to stop crimes,'' the policemen grumbled to reporters.