A 55-year-old woman living alone for the last three years was found murdered at her home in D Block, Sushant lok Phase-1 area on Thursday morning. Police suspect foul play and said that Alka Kumar, the victim was killed at least three to four days earlier.
Alka Kumar’s murder came to light when her son’s father-in-law Suraj Prakash Vohra informed the police about the incident. Her decomposed body tied with a rope was found in the lobby of the first floor of the house. There were injury marks on her head, legs and face. Her killers had also ransacked the house, police said.
According to the police, the victim was a widow and has a son Aatish Kumar, who lives in the US. She had been living alone after her husband died around three years ago.
“Her son used to call her in every three to four days but didn’t get any response. When he could not speak to her he asked his father-in-law based in Delhi to visit her. When he reached the house on Thursday morning in Sushant lok, the door of the house was open he found the victim’s decomposing body in a pool of blood and informed the police, an official said.
Soon after the information, the police team along with forensic experts reached the spot and after conducting preliminary investigations, the police later sent the body for the post-mortem examination.
Her neighbours said the woman used to live alone in the house. “I did not see her for the past three to four days. I came to know about her death after the police visited her house,” a neighbour said.
Meanwhile, the preliminary probe suggests that the entry of the accused was friendly because there was no sign of forced entry into the house. Also, the accused persons ransacked the house, a police official, said.
“The accused hit on her head rapidly with a blunt object. The murder weapon is yet be recovered. We also came to know that there were no domestic help work in the house. We are also scanning the CCTV footage of the nearby locations. We are probing whether any domestic help was involved in the murder”, Vikas Kaushik, Station House Officer (SHO) of the Sector-29 police station said.
A case has been registered against the unknown persons under Section 302 (murder) and other relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Sector 29 police station, the SHO added.