A 27-year-old woman from Mizoram was stabbed to death at her home even as a party was going on in the one-room tenement, police said on Friday.

Police are questioning Juliet Zonunmawi’s male partner and her five friends, who were attending the party at her

one-room flat in South Delhi’s Munirka area.

Zonunmawi, a resident of Aizawl in Mizoram, was taken to Safdarjung Hospital around 11 pm on Thursday by her male partner Virender Singh but doctors declared her brought dead.

She was found lying in a pool of blood with head injury as well as stab wounds to her abdomen and thigh, police said.

“A Central Forensic Science laboratory team has collected all the evidences from the spot and her body has been sent for a post-mortem. A medical team has also been constituted to conduct the post-mortem,” said a police official. “No arrest has been made yet as a probe is still on and they are also waiting for the victim’s post-mortem report,” said the official.

Police said Zonunmawi had come to Delhi around five years ago and had been staying in Munirka for the last few months with Virender, a resident of Haldwani in Uttarakhand.

Zonunmawi was working in a call centre in Gurgaon while Virender was preparing for the Civil Services exam.

Virender claimed that Juliet in the last few years had attempted suicide every time the duo had a fight. He further

stated that a friend of Juliet had entered the kitchen where she was purportedly whipping up dishes for her party guests.

It appears to be a crime of passion, said police. She has sustained stab injuries to her thighs and abdomen and a blunt force trauma to her head. It appears she died of excessive blood loss. Police officials sought to dispel the notion it was a hate crime.

A case of murder has been registered at Vasant Vihar police station. A medical board has been constituted and police

officers said a clearer picture will emerge once the autopsy report is out. However, the

post-mortem would be

conducted only after the family of the victim gives consent.