The city police on Saturday arrested two men for allegedly killing one of their friends after a joyride in an Audi car borrowed by the victim. The arrested accused has been identified as Ajay (19) and Sonu (24), both are residents of Sonipat district in Haryana.

According to the police the victim has been identified as Arshad Khan (35) of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. The police registered the case on Khan's wife, who told police that her husband's friends of Gururgram, had visited their residence in Ghaziabad on January 7.

"My husband later went out with his friends on a joyride to Sonipat on an Audi car that he borrowed from his other friend Shahrukh Khan. As my husband did not return the car to his friend till late evening that day, Shahrukh called him up and asked to return the car," Shabnam the deceased's wife told the police.

Arshad had told Shahrukh over phone that his friends were insisting upon him to take liquor, failing which they were threatening to kill him, the victim's wife told police.

Hearing Arshad's terrified voice, Shahrukh informed the victim's younger brother Gulab that his brother could be in trouble. As Gulab called up Arshad on hearing this, his phone went unanswered, following which they reported the matter to police.

As the police swung into action, it found Arshad's body the next day in Sector-42 in Grugram with the Audi car abandoned a few hundred metres away from there.

During the investigation, the police also found a Facebook post of the accused taking a joyride in Audi with Arshad. During interrogation, the culprits have confessed involvement in the crime that they drove to Sonipat along with Arsad and had drinks together, the police said.

 "Arshad and the accused Ajay got into a quarrel with each other. After that the culprits forced him to drink liquor, then they strangled him with a hot sheet covered and killed him. After killing him, they put his dead body in the car's Diggi and put it in a dirty drain in Gurugram and left the car at some distance and ran away," said Preet Pal Singh Sangwan, ACP (crime). A case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) had been registered against the culprits at the Sushant Lok police station.