Cocking a snook at the Delhi Police, unidentified assailants shot dead a 38-year-old teacher on Monday morning while she was driving a scooty to reach the school in Ferozpur area of neighbouring Sonipat district in Haryana. She had left for the school from her residence in Bawana of the national Capital.
According to a senior police official, the slain teacher has been identified as Sunita, a resident of Bawana village. “The incident took place at around 8 am on Monday morning when Sunita who worked with a Government Senior Secondary Girls School in Ferozpur, Sonipat was on her way to school when the armed assailants intercepted her on the Bawana road. They shot her dead from a very close range. She had sustained three bullet injuries,” said Rajneesh Gupta, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Rohini district.
“A police team after receiving a Police Control Room (PCR) call rushed to the spot. The teacher had sustained three bullet injuries in her abdomen and she was lying in a pool of blood on the spot. The woman was rushed to Maharishi Valmiki Hospital in the area where doctors declared her brought dead,” said the DCP.
“During our initial investigation it has come to light that the assailants who knew Sunita’s routine, lay in wait. They lost no time in waylaying her and pumped three bullets into her body. She was killed on the spot. She was taken to the hospital but it was too late”, said an official tasked with the investigation.
“A case of murder has been registered. We are scanning the available footage to identify the killers. Body was handed over to her family members after the post mortem examination, said police official.
“Sunita’s husband works as a property dealer in Bawana and they had shifted to this locality some three years ago. She is survived by a 16 year-old daughter and 8 year-old son”, said the police official.
“She came first in the Haryana Government’s Saksham Lakshaya Abhiyan following which there was an event today for her felicitation. Unfortunately she could not make it as her life was snuffed out by assailants,” said Vinod, a colleague and an office bearers of the State Primary Teachers Association, Kharkhoda in Sonipat.