India, Dec. 27 -- The owner of an illegal de-addiction centre in southwest Delhi's Dichaon Kalan was arrested after a 28-year-old tea seller "mysteriously" died within four days of his admission earlier this month, police said on Friday.

According to police, the deceased was identified as Rishipal, a resident of Manesar who had been struggling with alcohol addiction. Autopsy findings revealed that Rishipal's body had multiple injuries and none of the staffers at the rehab centre could help establish the sequence of events leading to his death, they added.

Police said the incident was reported by Rao Tula Ram Hospital on December 8, stating that a man named Rishipal had been brought dead to the hospital a day earlier.

Rishipal's family ...