A 65-year-old man was found murdered with multiple stab injuries on his body following a suspected daylight robbery at Samachar Apartments in East Delhi’s Mayur Vihar area on Wednesday, police said.
There has been no arrest yet in the case and investigations are underway.
According to a police official, Vijay Kumar, a native of Kottayam in Kerala, was a retired official in the Health Department of Kerala Government and had shifted to the flat four years ago with his wife Vasundhara.
His daughter Ambali has also been staying just a few houses away in the same society for almost ten years with her husband Madhu, an architect having his own firm in Noida, and two kids.
The incident came to light around 2 pm when Ambali, who works with the Rajya Sabha television channel, came to the house to check as he was not taking phone calls for quite long and her mother, who works with the Income Tax department, was in office.
She found the victim lying in a pool of blood and raised an alarm, following which a neighbour rushed there and called up the police, an eyewitness said. According to police, the PCR call was received at 2:10 pm and a crime team, along with, senior police officials of the East district reached the crime scene.
“A maid who used to work at the flat is missing since the incident. The house was not ransacked but cash has been stolen. Further investigations in the matter are on,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, (East district), Rishi Pal Singh adding, a case under section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered.” The body has been sent for postmortem.
However, the number of attacker involved in the incident and their identities are yet to be ascertained, said a police official.