India, July 21 -- A Delhi eatery owner who was arrested for a murder in December last year and then released by police citing lack of evidence, has now confessed in court that he did fatally attack the victim - but claims it was in self-defence.

Ram Kumar Dubey, owner of a roadside eatery in Krishna Nagar, Shahdara in east Delhi, was arrested after his employee, 35-year-old Gangesh Shukla, went missing and was later found dead. Shukla was last seen at Kashmere Gate bus stand on November 25, and his body was found at a DTC bus stand the same day. The body was unidentified until December 16, when the family identified it in a mortuary, police said.

The family accused Dubey and his associates of attacking Gangesh, faking his kidnapping, an...