Woman killed, face disfigured after she asks colleague to pay back loan

Days after a 45-yearold resident of south Delhi was reported missing, her body was found in Greater Noida, police officers aware of the case said on Thursday, adding that her alleged murderer a colleague and a close friend has been arrested

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Police said Mohammed Zakir, 48, took the victim Pinki Devi to Knowledge Park in Greater Noida and killed her with an iron dagger, and then poured acid on her face and body to ensure that she was not identified. They said Zakir committed the crime as he had borrowed money from Devi, and she had been pressuring him to return the loan.

Giving the details of the case, police said Pinki Devi, a resident of Madangir who worked as a technical supervisor at Nizamuddin railway station, loaned 11 lakh to Zakir, also a technical supervisor at the station, around five years ago. Police said the victim had taken a personal loan to lend the money to Zakir, a resident of Subhash Vihar in northeast Delhi, and had been asking him to return it.