Elderly woman found murdered at Narela home

NEW DELHI: A 75-year-old woman was found murdered at her home in outer Delhi’ s Narela on Tuesday morning. Police found strangulation marks around her neck.

NEW DELHI: A 75-year-old woman was found murdered at her home in outer Delhi’ s Narela on Tuesday morning. Police found strangulation marks around her neck.

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Police suspect the involvement of her son-in-law as he has been missing after the crime. A case of murder was registered at Narela police station. Two teams have been formed to investigate the murder.

Preliminary probe indicated that the woman, Shanti Devi, was murdered over a property dispute.

Investigations revealed Shanti’s son-in-law, Awdhesh Kumar, had been pressuring her to transfer her house, where she lived, to his name.

Shanti is survived by her four daughters, all of them married. While her three daughters live with their in-laws, the younger daughter and her husband, Awdhesh, were staying with her for the past few years.

Awdhesh is a watchman in nearby residential colonies.

On Monday night, Shanti and other family members had dinner together. While Shanti and Awdhesh slept on their cots outside the house, other family members slept inside.

“Around 7am on Tuesday, Shanti’s daughter came out and found her mother lying unconscious on the cot. She looked for Awdhesh but he was missing,” a police officer said.