Juvenile held for allegedly killing relative who refused to give him money

The police have apprehended a juvenile for allegedly killing his elderly relative after she refused to give him money to repay a loan of Rs 12 lakhs that he had taken from his friends officials said on Sunday The police have also arrested for others who allegedly encouraged the juvenile to commit the crime to repay the loan they had given him they saidThe names of the four accused aged between 19 and 28 have been withheld to not reveal the identity of the juvenile they saidThe matter came to light after the police received a call on Friday about the killing of the elderly lady identified as Maya Devi at her Shalimar Bagh residence officials saidWhen the police reached the spot they found her lying on the bed with her throat partially slit They observed that there were no signs of a breakin and all household articles and ornaments were intact they saidInvestigation revealed that the elderly woman earlier owned a property in Shalimar Bagh but had sold it and given the proceeds to her four sons and daughter and preferred to stay alone in a Janta flat in the area said Usha Rangnani Deputy Commissioner of Police NorthwestAlso Read Mumbai MBA student from Bhandup loses Rs 468 lakh to sextortionAnalysis of footage from CCTV cameras revealed a person entering the building at 930 pm and leaving at 1120 pm on Thursday and then again returning and leaving at 1220 am on Friday with his face covered with a white towel she addedWhen her family members examined the footage they found that the suspect resembled a juvenile family member currently studying in a school who was then questioned the senior officer saidDuring questioning the juvenile admitted to the murder and said he had fallen into bad company of friends and had taken a loan from them They allegedly asked him to arrange the money and had been constantly putting pressure on himSince he was aware of the money kept at the elderly womans house he discussed the plan with his friends and planned to kill her and escape with the money as she had earlier refused to give him the amount the officer addedElaborating the sequence of event the officer said the juvenile killed the woman around 1040 pm with a surgical blade when she again refused to give him money and then took Rs 12 lakh from her almirah and handed it over to his friends at a nearby hospital parking lotAfter disposing his blood stained clothes and the surgical blade he then returned to his Pitampura home after confirming that his relative was dead He had hidden his clothes in his house after cleaning them she saidPolice said the juvenile was apprehended from his school on Friday and is presently at an observation homeAfter the killing the other four accused fled to Dehradun the same day in a taxi owned by one of them When a police team reached there to apprehend them they managed to come back to Delhi However all of them were nabbed in the capital after several raids were conducted in Shalimar Bagh Adarsh Nagar Nangloi Mangolpuri and Rohini the DCP saidThe police said to have recovered the surgical blade the clothes of the juvenile and the taxi belonging to the accused along with Rs 50000 Efforts were on to recover the remaining money police addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever