India, Jan. 7 -- One of the absconding suspects in the assault of a 52-year-old businessman and his family in east Delhi's Laxmi Nagar released a video statement on Tuesday admitting that he had participated in the attack and claiming he was being defamed by opposition parties because he was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker. Police saying they were trying to locate the man, Onkar Yadav, through technical surveillance and arrest him.

On Monday, a series of videos of the January 2 assault, in which the businessman's 26-year-old son was also stripped and beaten by a group of men on the street outside their residence, sent shockwaves in the Capital and raised serious questions about law and order in the city. The dispute was allegedly l...