Woman’s body found in east Delhi

The house behind which the woman’s body was found belongs to a woman who lives abroad. Sushil was employed to look after the house for the last several years.

MEGHNA YADAV, DCP (Shahdara)

NEWDELHI: The body of 42-year-old woman from Ghaziabad was recovered from a lane in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar on Saturday morning.

The woman was found lying face down on the road with blood oozing out from her nose. No visible injury marks were found on her body, police said.

The body was partially disrobed.

Police said they were waiting for the woman’s autopsy report to ascertain the exact cause of death and to know if she had been sexually assaulted before being murdered.

Locals alleged that the woman had been murdered by the caretaker of a nearby house.

They claimed that CCTV footage of a nearby house shows the caretaker dragging the woman’s body out of his employer’s house and dumping it on the lane around 4.23am.

The caretaker, identified by his first name Sushil, 40, is absconding. Locals say that a second camera had caught Sushil fleeing on a motorcycle with a man, whose identity is yet to be established by the police. A case of murder has been registered at the Vivek Vihar police station and raids were being conducted to nab the suspects.

Deputy commissioner of police (Shahdara) Meghna Yadav said the crime came to light when a neighbour called the police control room around 9.25am and informed about a woman’s body lying at the backside of a house in Vivek Vihar’s D-block.

A police team reached and cordoned off the crime scene. The body was shifted to a nearby hospital’s mortuary as a forensics team collected evidence from the crime spot.

“The house behind which the woman’s body was found belongs to a woman who lives abroad. Sushil was employed to look after the house for the last several years,” the DCP said.

A local resident, identified as Janak Lata, said police have taken away the digital video recorder of the CCTV camera in which Sushil is seen dumping the woman’s body.