Murderer waited six hours for 'right time'

Probe into the grisly murder of 64-year-old Rohit Kumar at his Panchsheel Park house revealed that the 25-year-old accused, who was arrested on Thursday, spent six hours in the house premises waiting for the "perfect opportunity" to enter the ground floor and execute the robbery, police said.

- Karn Pratap Singh

The accused, Abhay Sikarwar, confessed that he stabbed Kumar 25-30 times and slit his throat with two knives — he brought one with him and picked up the other from the kitchen, police said. Sikarwar then took Kumar's wristwatch, wore his winter jacket, removed the digital video recorder (DVR) of the building's CCTV cameras and fled with the evidence.

"Sikarwar entered the house through the kitchen net and had planned to rob cash and jewellery from the ground floor. But Kumar woke up and caught him. A scuffle broke out, and Sikarwar panicked; he began stabbing Kumar. He then decided to make a run for it, and left with one of three wristwatches he found in the room, Kumar's hoodie jacket, and the DVR," said one of the officers who asked not to be named.