New Delhi, July 29: A 40-year-old beauty parlour owner was strangled to death in her south-east Delhi residence today allegedly by a domestic help whom her husband wanted to adopt as a son, police said.
The incident took place in Hari Nagar Ashram and the family’s domestic help Anil was arrested in this connection.
The woman, Meenakshi Sharma, was murdered between 3:30 am and 7:30 am, a senior police official said.
The murder came to light at around 7:30 am when her son Shivang (20) found her lying unconscious in her bedroom.
Shivang, a student of Mass Communication at Panjab University, told police that he went to sleep at around 3:30 am and when he woke up, he found the door to his room latched from outside.
“He shouted for help and a garbage collector opened the door.
–Agencies