Double murder in Govindpuri: Woman, teen-son killed inside house

In the tightly packed lanes of Govindpuri, a 38-year-old woman and her 13-year-old son were found dead inside their ground-floor home around 2 am on Thursday, in what police suspect was a robbery.

The bodies of Sharda Sahu, a homemaker, and her son, a Class 7 student, were discovered with stab wounds inside their Govindpuri, Kalkaji residence, police said. Cash and gold jewellery were reported missing from the house.

According to Delhi Police, a PCR call regarding the incident was received at Govindpuri Police Station around 1 am.

Police said the complainant and Sharda’s husband, Vishnu Sahu, a fruit and vegetable vendor, returned home around 12:30 am and found the front door latched from the outside. On entering the house, he discovered the bodies of his wife and son lying in a pool of blood.

The family consisted of Vishnu, his wife and their son, who occupied the ground floor of the four-storey house they allegedly owned, police sources said.

Senior police officers, including the SHO and ACP, rushed to the spot and secured the crime scene. Crime and forensic science laboratory teams inspected the house and collected material evidence from the scene of the crime.

During the inspection, police officials found cash and jewellery missing from almirahs, raising suspicion that robbery could be the motive behind the twin murders. Police sources said the entry was friendly, and alleged that Sharda opened the doors, and that the family’s acquaintances may have committed the crime.

There was a lack of functional surveillance cameras in the locality. CCTV cameras installed in the area where the incident occurred were allegedly non-functional. The Pioneer observed that only a few cameras were present in adjacent areas.