Police on Sunday claimed to have cracked the sensational murder of 23-year-old engineer Anjali Rathour. The accused was arrested from Mainpuri district by the Noida Police. The murder has created quite a sensation in Noida and it also raised serious questions about the safety and security of working women here.
Police said investigation has revealed that Ashwini Yadav, (24) the accused, was a college classmate of Anjali and claimed to have been in a relationship with her. After his arrest on Saturday evening, he confessed to the killing, they added.
Anjali was found dead at the parking lot of her residential complex, Shatabdi Vihar, in Noida Sector-62 on May 31. CCTV footage had shown a man chasing her with a pistol.
Yadav said he had killed her as she got into a relationship with another man and started ignoring him after he lost his job. Yadav did not like it and planned to eliminate her, a police official involved in the investigation said.
According to police, Yadav had met Anjali a day before the murder. He had bought a country-made pistol from Etawah — his hometown — and planned the killing with an accomplice.
The next morning he entered the society and called her to the parking lot. Sensing trouble, Anjali had tried to run to save herself but could not do so as Yadav who was standing close to her fired at her. By the time she was moved to a nearby hospital, she was dead, following which a case of murder was registered and investigation was taken up, said police.