FOUR, INCLUDING DAUGHTER, HELD FOR MURDER OF G NOIDA WOMAN

NOIDA: A woman, her husband and two other suspects were arrested on Sunday for allegedly murdering the woman’s mother in Dankaur , Gautam Budh Nagar district.

On Friday morning, Greater Noida police recovered a 56-year-old woman’s partially burnt body from her kitchen at Chhapar Garh village, Dankaur.

The suspects have been identified as Meenu her husband Mahaveer, residents of Hateva village, and their accomplices Ashok Singh and Bijan Singh, both residents of Mirzapur village in Greater Noida.

Investigation revealed that Veeramati Devi, the victim, was suffocated to death while she was asleep by her daughter Meenu. Later, Meenu dragged her body into the kitchen and used petrol to burn it. The suspects also allegedly left the gas on before fleeing the scene to make it seem like an accident.

Radha Raman Singh, the station house officer of Dankaur police station said that the suspects entered the house late Thursday night by jumping over the boundary wall.

“The victim was sleeping in one room while her grandson was sleeping in another room. The suspects smothered Veeramati with a pillow. Later they took the body from her bedroom to the kitchen and fled the spot along with her insurance policy papers, bank ATM cards and some other documents,” SHO Singh said.

Police added that during interrogation, the suspects told police that the deceased had received ₹15 lakh from her life insurance policy.

“The victim was also supposed to have received some amount of money for land that was acquired by the government. When Meenu demanded her share, her mother refused. She then plotted her mother’s murder with her husband Mahaveer and two others and decided to take out the money from her mother’s account through ATM card or cheque. However, the post-mortem report revealed that Veeramati died due to suffocation that raised suspicion,” SHO Singh added.all the suspects have been booked under Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the Indian Penal Code (and further investigation is underway, police said.