New Delhi, April 14 -- A 30-year-old homeless man was arrested for allegedly murdering another homeless person by assaulting him with stones and a stick, and then burying his body in an iron container filled with sand on the GT Karnal Road stretch leading to Mukarba Chowk near Bhalswa Dairy in outer Delhi.

Police said the murder took place on Holi (March 25), and the decomposed body was discovered on March 27.

The container was part of a series of containers hired by the Delhi Police on February 13 from private contractors to use as blockades to prevent protesting farmers of Punjab and Haryana from entering the Capital.

Police said that while the containers were monitored through CCTVs and by ground personnel, the deployment was minimise...