: A former employee of a 73-year-old share trader has been arrested for allegedly murdering the senior citizen at his Defence Colony residence on September 14.
The body of the victim, R.C. Chukhani, was found by his daughter. The latter had returned home from a market to find that he was not opening the door despite repeated knocks.
On entering the house using a spare key, she had found her father lying dead on the floor. There was blood on his face, and the door of the basement was found open. Apart from the victim’s laptop, the DCR of CCTV cameras installed in the house was found missing.
Initially, the police had suspected personal enmity to be the motive behind the murder. But later, two silver bricks worth Rs. 2.5 lakh were found missing from the house locker, indicating that it was a case of robbery.
Breakthrough
When the police scanned a CCTV footage obtained from the locality, two masked men were seen entering the house through the basement and coming out around half-an-hour later.
The police then obtained footages from nearby localities as well as metro stations. More than 150 CCTV footages were analysed during the probe, said Ishwar Singh, DCP (South).
The police concluded that the killers had travelled from UP’s Muzaffarnagar via Shadara, Kashmere Gate, Central Secretariat and Lajpat Nagar.
“They have used different modes of transport such as metro, bus and auto before and after the crime so that they could not be caught,” said an investigator.
One of the accused, Rahul Kumar, was arrested from his hometown in Muzaffarnagar on Friday.
Since he was aware about the financial status of the victim, he decided to rob and kill him, said the police. Rahul was helped in the crime by one person, who is absconding.
