New Delhi, March 09: A debt-ridden young couple planned to earn some quick money by robbing an elderly woman living alone in the capital but ended up killing her, police said. Moreover, most of the ornaments they took from the victim''s house in north-west Delhi''s Rani Bagh were useless for them as they were artificial jewellery.
Police arrested 21-year-old Hema for allegedly murdering Manjeet Kaur, who ran a marriage bureau, with the help of her husband Gopal Aggarwal on February 23. "Hema was arrested from Budh Vihar yesterday.
She knew the victim and was in contact with her for sometime. They were under heavy debt and thought that they will be able to steal jewellery and cash from Kaur''s house," Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West) N S Bundela said today.
Kaur was staying alone and the couple thought that they could steal the articles easily and settle their debts. They went to Kaur''s residence to meet her on some pretext.
Kaur started shouting when they overpowered her and started robbing the house. The couple then allegedly slit her wrist and neck with a kitchen knife and she bled to death.
"They fled with cash and jewellery. However, later they found that most of the jewellery were artificial.
Hema then threw the ornaments into an MCD garbage bin in Mangolpuri," Bundela said. Efforts are on to arrest Aggarwal.
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