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New Delhi: Delhi Police said that a woman was brutally murdered allegedly by her partner over suspicion of multiple affairs in the Shakur Basti area of the national capital. The accused and the deceased were known to each other for one and a half years, officials said.
They said the accused has been identified as Pandav Kumar, a resident of Delhi. He was killed the victim with a sharp-edged weapon with which he slit her neck and inflicted over 20 cuts to her body, including the pubic area.
Police said that the accused was arrested in connection with the murder. After prime interrogation, the accused revealed that he was a school dropout and belonged to a poor family. He worked as a laborer in Delhi and was friends with the woman for the last one and a half years.
According to the police, he met her in his native village i.e. Bihar, because the marriage of the woman’s elder sister took place there. Since the last few months, he has had suspicions that the deceased is “having multiple affairs” and “she is ignoring him,” as per the police.
He decided to kill her to take revenge, for which he bought two knives from a local vendor at Rani Bagh market. The body of the woman, understood to be in a relationship with the accused, was found near the railway tracks in the Shakur Basti area of West Delhi on January 25.
According to officials, the deceased woman (between 25 and 30 years old) was “brutally murdered,” and “almost every part of the deceased had a cut-mark injury caused by a sharp-edged weapon.” When the police found the body of the woman, her neck was slit and over 20 cuts were there on her body, including in the pubic area, the police said.
He added that a blood-stained broken knife and a blood-stained shaving blade were recovered from the spot. Accordingly, a case under IPC section 302 was registered at Rani Bagh Police Station, and an investigation was taken up.
The police said that during the investigation, nearly 100 hours of CCTV footage were checked and analyzed; routes used by the accused were tracked, and local informers were activated to get clues about the murder. He further said that based on technical and local information, one suspected person, later identified as Pandav Kumar, a resident of Budh Vihar, Delhi, was arrested.
The accused had called the woman at Budh Vihar Nala in north-west Delhi to execute his plan, and allured her to live together in a rented accommodation.
However, when she denied the proposal, he took her to the railway yard and killed her with a knife, the police said. “Later, he called the victim at Budh Vihar Nala and allured the deceased to live together in a rented accommodation; when snubbed, he took her to the railway yard and killed her with a knife,” as per police.
According to the police,”He attacked her several times, due to which she got injured and fell down; later, she died.” The police added, “The accused, after committing the murder, fled from the spot as per his plan.”
