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New Delhi: An elderly woman’s body was found wrapped in plastic inside a bed box on Friday (December 15) after a foul smell from the ground-floor bedroom at their residence rang an alarm bell to her family, the police said. The deceased was recognised as Asha Devi who went missing from the Nand Nagri area of the national capital on December 10.
The Asha Devi (60) went missing from Delhi’s Nand Nagri on December 10 and after three days, her son Mahavir Singh (33) filed a missing complaint at the Nand Nagri police station. In the report filed to the police, Mr Singh claimed that on December 10, the deceased had come to Nand Nagri to collect rent from her tenants, following which she went missing.
On Friday, Asha Devi’s family members sensed a foul smell emanating from the ground floor of their residence in Delhi’s Harsh Vihar. When they opened the bed box in their ground-floor bedroom, they found 60-year-old’s body inside the bed box, wrapped in plastic.
The Forensic Science Laboratory Team and the Crime Team have inspected the scene of the incident, police said, adding that the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition or putrefaction and was shifted to the GTB Mortuary for postmortem examination.
The police registered a case of kidnapping and murder and further investigation into the matter is underway.
