Badlega India
In a shocking incident, a 70-year-old retired government employee from Kerala was found murdered at his flat in Samachar Apartments in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar on Wednesday afternoon.
The elderly man, father of a producer in Rajya Sabha TV, was stabbed multiple times in his chest and abdomen.
The flat was ransacked and valuables were missing. Police suspect it to be a case of robbery, though they have not ruled out the possibility of other motives. There was no sign of forced entry into the flat. Police suspect the involvement of somebody known to the victim.
The deceased, Vijay Kumar, lived with his wife in their flat on the fourth floor. Kumar’s wife works with the income tax department. She was at her office when Kumar was murdered. The couple had moved into the flat four months ago. Before that they lived with their daughter, Ambali Vijay Kumar’s family in the same apartment, said police.
A senior police officer said that around 2 pm when Kumar’s daughter returned from office and went to meet her father. Ambali used to visit her parents every day. She found the main iron and wooden doors of the flat slightly open.
“Ambali thought that her father had left the doors open as he knew she would be visiting him after work. She went inside and found the LED TV lying on the floor in the hall and other items lying upside down. She rushed to his father’s bedroom and found him lying in a pool of blood on the bed,” said the officer.
