A 71-year-old woman was found dead in a garbage dump in south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri on Sunday. Prima facie it appears to be a natural death, the police said.
The police was informed around 6 a.m. that an elderly woman was lying unconscious near a garbage dump. “We reached the spot and took her to a hospital where she was declared brought dead,” said a police officer.
The woman, identified as Wadiya Devi, lived with her son and daughter-in-law in Okhla. The officer added that the body did not have any injury marks. The family of the deceased, however, said she was wearing a gold chain, which was missing when the body was found. According to them, she may have been killed for the chain.
“According to the family, sometimes she didn’t come home at night as she would attend jagran. Last night too, the family thought she was in a jagran,” the police officer added.
