Former Union Minister PR Kumaramangalam’s wife, Kitty Kumaramangalam, was allegedly murdered by three suspects at her residence in Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Tuesday, the police informed.
Police said Kitty Kumaramangalam (67) was allegedly murdered by three suspects who entered her house at southwest Delhi’s Vasant Vihar on Tuesday evening.
“Incident happened around 9.00 pm when her domestic help opened the door for the family’s regular washerman (dhobi). When the help opened the door, he overpowered her, dragged her to one room and restrained her. In the meantime, two other boys entered and overpowered Kitty Kumaramangalam. They smothered her using a pillow,” Ingit Pratap Singh, Deputy Commissioner Police (DCP), Southwest Delhi told a news agency.
Kitty Kumaramangalam’s husband P Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was as a member of Parliament from Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000. He has served as Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the PV Narasimha Rao Cabinet from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the AB Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. He died on August 23, 2000.
