In an incident highlighting gross negligence and violations by the West district police, the naked body of a 26-year-old woman, who was found murdered under mysterious circumstances, in the flat of her live-in partner in Inderpuri area, was taken to the hospital in a tempo.
Police officials claimed that they waited for an ambulance for an hour to take the body of the victim to the nearby hospital but after it did not come they had to use a tempo. According to the standard procedure, if a body of a woman is found in a state of undress, the concerned Investigating Officer has to get clothes for the body, call in ambulance and take the body to the mortuary of the nearest Government hospital.
On Monday, the police said that they received a PCR call at around 6:24 pm about the body of a woman in her second floor house in JJ colony in Inderpuri. Upon enquiry, the police established her identity as Kusum Yadav. She worked as a security guard in Plaza Cinema Hall in Connaught Place and was living with one Vinod Yadav. Police said that the couple introduced each other as man and wife.