NEW DELHI: Eleven months after an 80year-old woman was found murdered at her Rohini apartment, her flat ransacked and son-in-law bundled up in their car, crime branch officials have cracked the case and have arrested the mastermind.
The accused Rajesh Kumar, a plumber, used to double up as a driver for the family. Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi had declared a reward of Rs 50,000 on him.
Additional CP (crime) Ashok Chand said Rajesh had fled to Rajasthan, but was tracked down using local intelligence and surveillance upon his return recently.
The woman, Krishna, used to live with her daughter, Sandhya, and son-in-law, Shailesh, at Balaji apartments at Rohini.Sandhya teaches at a government school and Shailendra has his own business.
On January 29, the couple had left for their offices at 7.30am. Subsequently, Shailesh went to deposit money in a bank. On not getting any alert message from the bank till 10am, Sandhya called up her husband who did not reply.
Later, another family driver Raman received her call and said Shailesh was busy with his friends. She asked Raman to come to her school and pick her up, but he did not turn up. On returning home at 1.30pm, she found her mother lying dead on floor and household articles scattered. The locks of almirahs were broken and Rs 5 lakh and some jewellery were missing. The entire CCTV system was also missing from the house.
"Shailesh and his car were not trace able. Later that evening, Shailesh was found in semi-conscious state inside his car at an isolated stretch behind M2K market, Rohini. He said he had a few drinks in presence of Rajesh and Raman and doesn't remember anything after that," DCP (crime) Dinesh Gupta said.
The case, which had had cops on their toes for almost a year, was finally solved after the police got a tip-off that Rajesh would be returning to Delhi to meet his girlfriend and arrange for finances. "A team led by inspector Pu ran Pant and others laid a trap and ar rested the accused. He confessed to the crime," DCP Gupta said.
The accused revealed that they had served liquor spiked with drugs to Shailendra in the car that morning and had abducted him after he fell unconscious.
After taking house's keys from him, they sneaked into the house and overpowered Krishna. They thrashed her mercilessly and then strangled her.
The hunt is on for Rajesh's associate, Raman.
The accused Rajesh Kumar, a plumber, used to double up as a driver for the family. Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi had declared a reward of Rs 50,000 on him.
Additional CP (crime) Ashok Chand said Rajesh had fled to Rajasthan, but was tracked down using local intelligence and surveillance upon his return recently.
The woman, Krishna, used to live with her daughter, Sandhya, and son-in-law, Shailesh, at Balaji apartments at Rohini.Sandhya teaches at a government school and Shailendra has his own business.
On January 29, the couple had left for their offices at 7.30am. Subsequently, Shailesh went to deposit money in a bank. On not getting any alert message from the bank till 10am, Sandhya called up her husband who did not reply.
Later, another family driver Raman received her call and said Shailesh was busy with his friends. She asked Raman to come to her school and pick her up, but he did not turn up. On returning home at 1.30pm, she found her mother lying dead on floor and household articles scattered. The locks of almirahs were broken and Rs 5 lakh and some jewellery were missing. The entire CCTV system was also missing from the house.
"Shailesh and his car were not trace able. Later that evening, Shailesh was found in semi-conscious state inside his car at an isolated stretch behind M2K market, Rohini. He said he had a few drinks in presence of Rajesh and Raman and doesn't remember anything after that," DCP (crime) Dinesh Gupta said.
The case, which had had cops on their toes for almost a year, was finally solved after the police got a tip-off that Rajesh would be returning to Delhi to meet his girlfriend and arrange for finances. "A team led by inspector Pu ran Pant and others laid a trap and ar rested the accused. He confessed to the crime," DCP Gupta said.
The accused revealed that they had served liquor spiked with drugs to Shailendra in the car that morning and had abducted him after he fell unconscious.
After taking house's keys from him, they sneaked into the house and overpowered Krishna. They thrashed her mercilessly and then strangled her.
The hunt is on for Rajesh's associate, Raman.
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