New Delhi: An 84-year-old woman was killed by her minor grandson and his friends after she refused to give him money in Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh. The minor killed his grandmother by slitting her throat with a surgical blade. After that, he called his four friends and showed them the dead body lying in the room.
The police have arrested four and detained the minor in the murder case. The elderly woman used to live alone in Shalimar Bagh and had recently sold a house. The police started following the leads and examined the CCTV footage of the area.
They saw a young man entering the house at around 9:30 pm on the night before the murder. His face was covered with a white towel. He came out at 11:20 pm and again entered the house at 12:20 in the night. The footage was shown to the family members, who revealed the identity of the suspect, India Today reported.
When the police detained the minor from the school and interrogated him, he disclosed that he owed money to some men and to get that, he planned his grandmother’s murder.
He named Sahil Saini (22), Mayank Saini (21), Sunny Baghel (19) and Sachin Saini (28) and revealed that they helped him in planning the murder.
The police have recovered a surgical blade, clothes stained with a minor’s blood, cash worth Rs 50,000, and a Swift Dzire car from the possession of the accused.