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Teacher found murdered in Mayur Vihar

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A 52-year-old primary school teacher was found murdered under highly mysterious circumstances at her Mayur Vihar Phase-I DDA flats residence in East Delhi on Monday. The police suspect the involvement of someone known to the victim.

Around 8-45 p.m. Tarun Chandra, who works in a call-centre on Mathura Road, returned home and found the door ajar. He went to the kitchen searching for his mother Leelawati and found her lying in a pool of blood. Her throat had been slit. The police were informed and Leelawati was rushed to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.

According to the police, initial investigations revealed that an almirah had been ransacked but apparently no valuables were found missing from the house. There were teacups lying on a table indicating that someone had come to meet the victim that evening.

"Circumstantial evidence suggests the involvement of someone known to the deceased. However, we are investigating other possibilities as well. All those who frequented the house are being questioned and the crime team has lifted fingerprints from the scene of crime," said a police officer, adding that the police had not come across any concrete clue to the murder yet.

Leelawati, who worked in a primary school at Kichhripur, had got separated from her husband about 11 years ago. After the post-mortem, her body was handed over to her relatives for cremation on Tuesday.

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