2 MURDERS IN 15 HOURS; SUSPECTS NABBED IN BOTH CASES ARE FAMILY MEMBERS: POLICE

NEW DELHI: Two persons, including a 64-year-old woman, were killed in two separate incidents reported from south and north-east Delhi within 15 hours on Sunday. Both murders have been solved, the police said, and the suspects have been arrested.

The first murder came to light around 7.30am on Sunday, when Safdarjung Hospital authorities informed south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri police station about the death of 38-year-old Sikandar Sahni due to strangulation. Sahni was admitted to the hospital by his 35-year-old wife Sarita Devi, who was later arrested for the murder. Police said during questioning, she admitted to killing her husband by strangling him with her saree.

“Sarita Devi told us that her husband was a habitual drinker...,” said deputy commissioner of police (south) Atul Kumar Thakur.

On Saturday night, an investigator who did not want to be named, said Sahini returned home in an inebriated condition and picked a fight with Sarita Devi. Their four children went to another room on the ground floor. The couple’s argument continued till the early hours of Sunday and the woman strangled her husband with her saree in a fit of rage.

In the second case, a 22-yearold man allegedly killed his mother by stabbing her multiple times with a screwdriver at their home in north-east Delhi’s Khajoori Khas on Sunday around 10pm. The man, Sushil Pandey, turned violent when his mother, Ramlalli Devi, rebuked him for his drinking habit and refused to give money to buy liquor, the police said.