A 55-year-old woman was stabbed to death at her residence in south-west Delhi's Chhawala on Saturday night.
The victim, Basanti, stayed with her son, Rajendra Kumar, who was not present at his house at the time of the incident. He returned home to find his mother's body in the kitchen with her throat slit and a kitchen knife lying next to her.
A senior police officer said a PCR call was received at 8 p.m. regarding the murder. “The entry to the house was friendly, no valuables are missing but the room was ransacked to make it look like a robbery. We suspect the role of an insider in this murder,” said a senior police officer.
Woman found dead
The partially disrobed body of a middle-aged woman was found abandoned at a garbage dumping site in Bhalswa Dairy on Saturday. The police suspected the victim was bludgeoned with stones and sticks and said are waiting for the post-mortem to find out if the woman was sexually assaulted.
“She resided in a slum area near Murgh Farm in Bhalswa dairy. The incident came to light when a passerby noticed the abandoned body and alerted us,” said a police officer. He said personal enmity may have led to the murder of the woman.
