New Delhi: Delhi Police have cracked the abduction and murder mystery of an elderly woman, who was murdered in cold blood at her residence a few days ago and her body was disposed of in the Najafgarh canal.
The shocking incident took place on June 30. A married couple, who were neighbours of the elderly woman, first strangled her to death and then chopped her body into several pieces. The couple filled the chopped pieces into handbags and threw them in the drain.
After the locals lodged complaint, police swung into action and nab the killer couple. It was because of meticulous planning and effective execution of Mohan Garden police station officials that the case was cracked very soon.
A team led by SHO Rajesh Maurya and under the supervision of ACP Najafgarh, the officials dug deep into the case, solved the murder mystery of the old woman and nabbed the murderous couple.
About the Killer couple
According to the police, the couple has been identified as Anil Arya and his wife Tanu. They have admitted to the crime of killing a 75-year-old woman and dumping her body.
Anil Arya had borrowed Rs 1.5 lakh from the elderly woman named Kavita, who was his neighbour in outer Delhi’s Najafgarh area. When the 75-year-old lady asked to return the money, Arya along with his wife, Tanu, allegedly killed her on the night of June 30. They punched and strangled the elderly woman.
However, the man’s wife has said that she didn’t kill the woman. She accused her husband of committing the crime and also assaulting her.
Chilling details of cold-blooded murder
The incident happened when the woman was alone at home. The couple killed the elderly woman after she demanded them to return the loaned money.
Anil and Tanu cut the body into several pieces with a knife used to cut vegetables so that the body of the old woman could not be identified. They spent the rest of the night cleaning the blood.
The two packed the bodies into three handbags, put them in the car and threw them into the canal near Najafgarh. They were caught on camera while they were loading these handbags in the car and apparently this left enough hints to police to enquire into their nefarious crime.
Police narrate the modus operandi
On June 30, the couple went to the house of the victim to stay with her. In the night the argument over the money again cropped up. Anil Arya gave a heavy punch blow to the victim due to which she fell unconscious. Then the accused strangulated her with the help of a nylon rope. After that, they cut the body into pieces with the kitchen knives available in the home and stuffed the same in two bags along with the rope, sleepers and clothes of the victim. The next morning they took the same to their place and hired an auto and reached near Yash Farm on Nala Road.
After paying the auto driver, they hired another TSR and travelled back towards Najafgarh Road on Nala Road. They alighted near a breach in the wall on the Nala and dumped the bags and mobile phone of the victim into the drain. After that, they returned to their home and after two days they fled to UA and then to Bareilly. After committing the murder, they took away the bag containing the chequebook, Ids and other papers of the victim. They also took away some jewellery and one mobile phone of the victim. The bags containing pieces of the dead body was recovered after a day-long search and lot of efforts at the instance of the accused persons, despite the accused try dodging the police. The robbed jewellery was mortgaged with Muthoot Finance, Uttam Nagar and received cash of Rs. 70,000/- and got released the already mortgaged jewellery of Tanu.
