A 46-year-old married woman was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors in East Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar on Wednesday morning allegedly by her neighbour, with whom she is said to have a love affair.
According to a senior police official, the accused has been identified as Rakesh, a bachelor. The deceased was attacked after she refused to marry him, said police.
The crime took place around 10 am in a lane near lalita’s home at Multani Mohalla, close to Pushta Road in Gandhi Nagar. The attacker was caught by a mob that witnessed the crime and chased him while he attempted to flee, police said.
Police said lalita lived with her husband, Ramesh Bhatia, and other relatives in the area. The couple has a fifteen-year-old daughter, who lives at her aunt’s home. Ramesh is mentally disabled and does not work. It was lalita who was working to make ends meet for her family members.”
A senior police officer said the woman, identified as lalita Devi, was stabbed six times with a pair of scissors allegedly by her neighbour, Rakesh , while she was walking towards the main road to board a bus. lalita worked in a private company and was heading to her workplace, when the crime occurred.
On Wednesday, lalita left home for work and was walking in the lane towards the main road when Rakesh followed her and asked her to stop. People presnt at the place of incident told police that the two had an argument over some issue during which Rakesh took out a pair of scissors and repeatedly attacked lalita in her abdomen, face and hands.
“When lalita collapsed, Rakesh tried to flee from the spot. The public, however, caught the accused, beat him up and then handed him over to police. The pair of scissors used by him to attack lalita was also recovered from him,” said the police officer. The even left residents shocked.