In yet another case of robbery-cum-murder, a 65-year-old woman was allegedly murdered at her house and robbed off her belongings by unidentified persons in West Delhi’s Paschim Vihar on Thursday, police said. The elderly woman was alone in her house as her husband had died long ago and her children not living with her. The murder was discovered by her cousin, who visited her house to enquire about her well being. She was strangled to death as there were telltale ligature marks on her throat.
According to a senior police official, the deceased has been identified as Krishna Devi, who owned a clothes business and used to sell toilet equipments too in the same area. Devi lived in the ground floor of her two-storeyed house.
Police said, Devi’s relative Chunni lal used to regularly come to her house in the afternoon for lunch.
“On Thursday afternoon, when Chunni lal arrived at the deceased’s home, she asked him to go and get some eatables from the market but when he returned he saw the front door of Devi’s house open,” said the official, adding, “Chunni lal entered the house and saw the victim lying on the floor motionless.”
lal immediately called Devi’s nephew, who came over and took her to the nearby hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead.
On coming back to Devi’s house, Manish found Devi’s bedroom ransacked. “Her almirah was open from where jewellery were stolen and other belongings of Devi were robbed,” alleged Manish.
Police registered a case under relevant Sections of IPC and have started investigation in the matter.
“The victim’s body has been sent for post-mortem. We have registered a case under relevant Sections of IPC and have started investigating the matter. CCTV’s of the area is also checked. We will soon arrest the accused in the case,” said the police official.