NEW DELHI: A day after the body of a 73-year-old woman has been found at her house, the Residents’ Welfare Association (RWA) told police that “outsiders” enter the area from a disputed site nearby and wants gates to stop them.
The deceased, identified as Savitri Pandey, was found dead with her throat slit in her flat in Sarita Vihar Pocket L on Saturday. The victim used to stay with her husband R K Pandey, the former executive director of the Delhi Stock Exchange in the ground floor while her son, daughter-in-law, and grandson live in the house behind hers.
“There are two main gates for entry and exit. But people from the nearby village enter our block to get to a DDA park; we want this to stop. There is also a disputed site next to our colony; it has no gate. Sometimes, residents have to stop outsiders from entering the colony. If we get a permanent gate, this will stop,” L Block RWA president, Mukesh Wadhwa, told The Indian Express.
During preliminary investigation, no evidence of ransacking the house has been found by the Delhi Police. But her son Sanjay Pandey, a chartered accountant, claimed: “My mother’s earrings, gold bangles and a necklace were missing.”
According to RWA members claims, there are 45 CCTVs in the 30-year-old colony that were functional and the lone CCTV outside the house was non-functional. However, police have registered a murder case and several teams of Delhi Police have been formed to look for clues and investigate the case from all angles.