Nephew held for woman’s murder in #Indirapuram

GHAZIABAD: The nephew of a 42-year-old woman, Rajbala Devi, who was brutally murdered inside her Indirapuram flat on October 30, was arrested on Thursday. Hariom, 22, and his accomplice Manzoor, 20, have been charged with murder and robbery.

Police said Hariom is the son of the elder brother of Rajbala’s husband, Dharampal. “He said his father and Dharampal had ventured into a business some years ago, but Dharampal duped his father of all investments. Hariom wanted revenge,” said SP Ajaypal.

The two accused did odd jobs for a living. A wrist-watch, a locket, two mobile phones and around Rs 2,000 in cash were recovered from their possession, which they had decamped with after killing Rajbala last Friday.

Rajbala, a homemaker, lived in flat number B-46C in Indirapuram’s Shakti Khand 1 with her husband and two children. Dharampal owns a cycle shop in Indirapuram. On October 30, the day of Karva Chauth, Rajbala was found dead with her hands and legs tied, mouth gagged, throat slit and stab wounds on her stomach and wrist, by her daughter, Neha, around 2 pm.

Police said they had found two shirts from beneath Rajbala’s bed, which belonged to the accused. “Hariom confessed that he and his friend hadremoved their shirts which had Rajbala’s blood stains on it, and hadleft the house wearing her son’s shirts,” an officer said.

Also, Rajbala had served the two men tea, when they had come to he house. Police had traced the accused by the finger prints on the tea cups.

Hariom had used a razor to slice Rajbala’s throat. He had borrowed it from a barber whose shop is near his rented house in Chijjarsi village.