Govindpuri double murder case: Police question husband, probe robbery, personal enmity angles

In the murder of a 38-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son inside their residence in Delhi’s Govindpuri in the early hours of May 21, the police have questioned multiple suspects, including the woman’s husband, as investigators probe robbery and personal enmity angles in the case. However, police have made no arrests in the case so far.

The bodies of Sharda Sahu, a homemaker, and her son Kushal, 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.

Police said Vishnu and Sharda had adopted Kushal from their sister-in-law.

A senior police officer told The Pioneer that Delhi Police had questioned around seven to ten suspects in connection with the murders. The officer also said Vishnu Sahu, Sharda’s husband, was being questioned as a suspect as part of the ongoing investigation.

Police sources confirmed that there were no signs of a forced entry into the house where the twin murders took place on Thursday.

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. A senior police official also confirmed to The Pioneer that there were no CCTV cameras in the area where the murder happened, and they were looking at the available footage to trace the attackers.

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

Police said Vishnu, 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 the bodies were sent for a post-mortem.

The Southeast district police have registered a case under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including provisions for murder and robbery, and formed multiple teams to trace the culprits.