Delhi Police has arrested a computer tutor and a budding music composer for killing a 73-year-old woman and her daughter in Delhi's Krishna Nagar area. The accused were identified as Kishan, a resident of Laxmi Nagar area, and Ankit Kumar Singh, a resident of Rukundipur near Siwan in Bihar. Both are cousins and the accused carried out the murders under "Mission Malamal", ostensibly aiming to become rich. Kishan was presently living in Laxmi Nagar, police said.
Singh is a singer and has a music band. He was composing lyrics and music for an upcoming film on over-the-top (OTT) platform, police said. Bodies of Rajrani (73) and her daughter Ginni Kirar (39) were found in a highly decomposed state and maggot-infested in Krishna Nagar on May 31, according to the police.
Police said the accused had contacted two advocates to seek legal advice before committing the crime.
On Wednesday, a person made a PCR call at 7.56 pm about a foul smell emanating from a flat on the first floor of a building in Krishna Nagar's E Block, following which a police team rushed to the spot. Bodies of Rajrani and Kirar were found lying the house, which was ransacked.
During investigation, police analysed over 200 cameras of entry and exit routes of accused persons. The accused were seen entering a house after committing the crime. Police raided and found that it belonged to the prime accused, Kishan, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Rohit Meena said.
However, Kishan had come to know that the bodies of the women have been found and fled the house, he added. Call detail records confirmed that the mobile phones of the victims as well as that of the accused were latched to the same tower in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, after the murders on May 25, the DCP said.
The accused switched off their mobile phones when they got to know that the police were chasing them, he said. They were planning to flee to Bihar and then to Assam. Police traced the location of Ankit Kumar Singh near BD Estate, Timarpur, and subsequently nabbed him, Meena said. The movement of Kishan was traced in Lucknow. He later came to Delhi and was apprehended from the Kanti Nagar area while he was preparing to surrender before the court, the DCP said.
Interrogation revealed that Kishan, who was working as a marketing manager in a firm dealing with medical equipment, got himself registered in a website offering online tutor service. He got in touch with Rajrani who needed a computer tutor for her differently-abled daughter, Ginni Kirar, Meena said.
Kishan started going to the house of Rajrani from April for tution of her daughter and slowly gained the trust of the women as they wanted to shift from the area and he helped them search a house in Lajpat Nagar. They shared account details for online payment with him and he found that they had over Rs 50 lakh in the bank account. He made a plan to kill them and keep the money, the DCP said.