DU professor’s wife was “murdered”: Delhi Police

Taxi driver confesses killing her

New Delhi, Nov. 10 (Delhi Crown): The Delhi Police on Wednesday confirmed that a Delhi University (DU) assistant professor’s wife had been “murdered” in the Burari area of North Delhi on Monday evening.

The victim, aged 32, who was found in an unconscious state inside her apartment, was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

Police said they have arrested a man identified as Rakesh, after he claimed that he had killed the woman. He was picked up by the police a short distance from the crime scene.

Rakesh said he was a taxi driver and that he had been given a room to live in by the professor around three years ago.

In February, after the assistant professor had married the woman, she had asked her husband to remove Rakesh from the house and also from the job. An argument ensued between Rakesh and the woman on the issue and he was sacked without being compensated for the time he had worked.

Police said that the incident was a case of revenge.

On Monday, Rakesh came to know that the assistant professor was out with his mother and that his wife and 84-year-old father-in-law were in the house. He entered the house, strangulated her and is also said to have given her an electric shock to her body to ensure her death.

As the woman’s father-in-law is hard of hearing, he didn’t realise what was happening in the house. Even when cops came to the house, he was motionless,” police said.

Police said the electrocution part was yet to be verified and would be revealed after the autopsy report. However, sources said cops had found the wires through which Rakesh had given the woman electric shock.

The family of the murdered woman claimed that they had filed a complaint with the police in August regarding a threat to their daughter from her husband, Rakesh and his wife.

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