YAMUNANAGAR BLIND MURDER CASE: VICTIM’S NEIGHBOUR HELD

AMBALA: Nearly three weeks after the mutilated body of a railway employee was found at her house in Yamunanagar, police arrested her 34-year-old neighbour, who confessed to his crime.

Addressing mediapersons on Monday, Yamunanagar superintendent of police (SP) Kamaldeep Goyal said, “A team of special detective unit had on Sunday managed to arrest the accused from Jawahar Colony.”

The accused, who is already convicted of murder, had shoved a bottle into the victim’s private parts, the police said.

SP Goyal said, “Section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code will be added to the FIR. We are waiting for the forensic science laboratory’s report.”

On June 23, the 55-year-old victim, who lived alone, was found murdered. During questioning, the accused told the police that a day before, he had consumed alcohol with his brother-in-law. “I was in an inebriated state. I knew that an old woman lived alone near my house, so I barged into her property in search of money to buy more alcohol. As the woman raised an alarm on seeing me, I hit her head with a pot repeatedly and dragged her to the bedroom,” he added.

“I bludgeoned her to death after finding Rs 300. But I stayed in her house till five in the morning,” the accused told the police.

He was arrested in 2011 and awarded life imprisonment two years later. He had come out of jail in 2017. The accused was produced in a court on Monday, which sent him in two-day police remand.