Caught on CCTV: ‘Friend’ stabs woman to death in Gurugram hotel, flees

Sanjay Yadav

Gurugram, August 21

In a shocking incident, a man stabbed his friend to death in a hotel and fled. The CCTV footage that went viral showed the man running out of the hotel and the bleeding woman collapsing on the stairs.

The 36-year-old woman was brutally stabbed 12 times in throat and chest by the man who brought her to the Sector 14 hotel. 

An FIR has been registered against the accused at Sector 14 police station. Teams of Sector 14 police station and crime unit are conducting raids to nab the accused who is still at large.

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Imrana, a native of Agra in UP, and was living in Rajiv Nagar colony with her husband and three children since 2019.

As per the complaint filed by her husband Mohammad Shahid, on Friday night around 8 pm, his wife went to IFFCO chowk in an autorickshaw to meet a friend, Sachin. He took her to Deeksha Hotel. They checked in room 206 and within 15 minutes Sachin came rushing out. Seeing his blood-stained clothes hotel staff tried to stop him but he managed to dodge them. Within minutes, the victim tumbled down the stairs. She soon succumbed to her injuries and hotel staff called police who took the body in custody.

In the preliminary investigation, police have found the ID submitted by the accused to the hotel as fake. The CCTV showed him covering face and stuffing a knife in a bag.

According to forensic expert Dr Deepak Mathur, the women died within 3 minutes of being stabbed. The police, meanwhile, have been questioning autorickshaw driver Rinku.

“A case of murder has been registered. Investigation is on to identify the accused and to arrest him. Only after his arrest it will be revealed that why he murdered the woman,” said inspector Satender Singh, SHO of sector 14 police station.