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Double murder accused sent to custody

Staff Reporter

Sikander claimed that the old couple used to humiliate him

UP IN ARMS: Residents of Inderlok protesting against the inaction of the State Government and police in the murder case involving seven persons of a family, in Delhi on Thursday. Photo: V.V. Krishnan

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday sent Sikander, the domestic help who allegedly murdered a 74-year-old retired Income Tax officer and his wife at their East Park residence in Karol Bagh on July 31, to two-day police custody. The police claim to have recovered a stolen mobile phone and Rs. 500 in cash from his possession.

According to the police, Sikander was arrested at the Alipur Duar railway station near the West Bengal-Assam border. Sikander had come to Delhi for the first time in 2004 and worked for three months in the house of a doctor at East of Kailash in South Delhi.

He quit the job without informing his employer and allegedly stole a pair of shoes. He again came to the Capital on July 20 this year and stayed in Noida. Through a placement agency, he was recruited by Mr. Grover.

He claimed that the old couple used to humiliate him, due to which he decided to eliminate them. In the early hours of July 31 when they were sound asleep, Sikander allegedly hit them on their head with an iron pipe. He then collected Rs. 1,000 and the mobile phone from the house and fled from the scene.

At his instance, the police have recovered the pipe that he had concealed in the staircase of the building.

Inderlok murders

The police have picked up some persons in connection with the gruesome murder of seven members of a family at their Inderlok residence in North Delhi in the early hours of July 31.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ranjit Narayan on Thursday said police were working on certain clues.

"Some people are being questioned," he said, refusing to divulge the developments in the investigations.

The police suspect that the murders were as a result of personal enmity. However, they are also investigating the property angle.

They are also trying to match the fingerprints lifted from the spot with those having criminal background.

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