Help, 4 others held for senior citizen’s murder

A domestic help and four of his associates were arrested for robbing and murdering a 72-year-old property consultant at his rented south Delhi home on Saturday afternoon, police said. HT reports.

A domestic help and four of his associates were arrested for robbing and murdering a 72-year-old property consultant at his rented south Delhi home on Saturday afternoon, police said.

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Harish Bahadur Khadait, 19, Navraj, 19, Ranga Khadka, 22, Padam Bahadur Khadka, 28, and Kamal Bahadur Budha, 23 — all of whom hail from Nepal’s Bajura district and performed odd jobs in the NCR for a living — had allegedly chalked out an elaborate plan to ransack Vijay Sarin’s Lajpat Nagar residence.

“The victim used to stay alone at the ground floor of the D block property from where the incident had been reported on Saturday afternoon,” said an officer.

Police said Sarin had recently employed a domestic help of Nepal origin whose antecedents he had not got verified. Investigation and questioning of around 60 employees of Nepali-origin led to Rohini, where Sarin’s servant Harish has been staying.

“A team was rushed and Harish and his brother-in-law Ranga were held,” the officer said. They confessed to the crime and their interrogation led to their aides who were held from Anand Vihar ISBT.