Youth held for murder during robbery bid

New Delhi, January 19

A 22-year-old man was arrested from a de-addiction centre in Ghaziabad for allegedly killing a woman in east Delhi in September last when she resisted a robbery attempt, police said on Sunday.

After the killing, the accused, Anjar, got himself admitted to the de-addiction centre in Loni area of Ghaziabad by providing fake identity. He was a resident of JJ Colony, Bawana, they said.

On Thursday, two persons — Mohammad Mazhar (27) and his brother-in-law Mohammad Kamrul (24) — were arrested by the Outer North district police for their involvement in robbery and theft cases. Mazhar was the main accused in the September incident. “On Friday, the East District police received information from the Narela Industrial Area police station regarding the involvement of Mazhar and Anjar in the murder of a woman in Madhu Vihar area around four months ago,” a senior police officer said.

Mazhar was interrogated and he disclosed that his accomplice Anjar was residing in a de-addiction centre in Loni by concealing his identity under false name of Rakesh, the officer said. Thereafter, a search operation was launched and the accused was arrested, the police said.

On September 21, 58-year-old Usha Rani, a resident of Jagatpuri, was shot dead around 6 am outside a temple in East Delhi’s Madhu Vihar by two two bike-borne accused when her husband had gone inside the premises for worship. Rani, an assistant manager with a state-run insurance company, was going to a hospital with her husband for treatment when they stopped at the temple near Hassanpur depot. She was attacked while waiting for her husband in a car. — PTI