Landlady killed by lover half her age over his plan to wed another woman

IN a case of love affair gone awry, a 31-year-old man killed his 60-year-old landlady-turned-lover after the latter objected to his plan to marry another woman.

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The case came to light on Friday when the woman’s decomposed body was found wrapped in a plastic sheet and hidden in a bed box in Nand Nagri.

DCP (northeast) Joy Tirkey said that a PCR call was received regarding the murder of a senior citizen woman named Asha Devi.

The woman, a resident of Dilshad Garden, had gone missing from Nand Nagri on December 10 and three days later her son filed a missing complaint at Nand Nagri police station.

“Today, family members of Asha Devi reported that a foul smell was coming out of their house in Harsh Vihar. When they opened the bed box on the ground floor bedroom, they found her body wrapped in plastic kept inside it,” Tirkey said.