51-year-old woman stabbed to death

Two people were murdered in two separate incidents within a span of 10 hours between Monday night and Tuesday morning, with police attributing both the killings to personal enmity.

In the first incident in east Delhi’s Anand Vihar on Monday evening, a 42-year-old rickshaw puller allegedly stabbed a 51-year-old woman, Neelam, at least three times near a bus stop close to a private hospital, where she worked as a sanitation worker.

She was rushed to Hedgewar hospital where she died during treatment, said police.

DCP (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said the attacker, Vedpal, was known to the woman for the last 10 years, as she used to take his rickshaw to commute between her home and the workplace. “Vedpal told us that he was angry with the woman because she stopped taking his rickshaw. She had also filed a police complaint against him

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for assaulting her in January this year, for which Vedpal was booked,” said the DCP.

Police said Neelam lived with her daughter in Vishwas Nagar, and her husband works in Mumbai. On Monday, she was waiting for her son near the community centre after work when Vedpal arrived and a scuffle broke out.

“Vedpal claims that Neelam slapped him and he killed her in a fit of rage... We suspect he had come prepared to kill the woman,” said an investigator.

In the second incident, Ajeet Singh (62) was shot dead while he was asleep outside his house in southwest Delhi’s Palam Extension early morning on Tuesday. Singh was shot in his forehead from a close range, said police.

“Singh’s family members were carrying out some construction work, which was opposed by their relatives. There was a quarrel over that issue on Monday. Singh’s nephew had threatened to kill them,” said DCP (Dwarka) Santosh Kumar Meena.